One of the ten Best Books of 2019 by The New Yorker * Nominated for Man Booker 2019 * Winner of the Nordic Council Prize for Literature * Chosen as the best Swedish novel of the decade by one hundred critics, authors, journalists and publishers. In April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM manifesto, and would-be murderer of Andy Warhol—was found dead at the age of fifty-two in her hotel room in a dingy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her latest writings. In this novel, we revisit the room where Solanas died, as well as the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol. One of Sweden's leading feminists and one of Scandinavia's most acclaimed writers, Sara Stridsberg here blurs the lines between history and fiction, self-creation and storytelling, madness and art, love and tragedy.
