'I can't think of a writer who is at once so formally daring and so
rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso' - Miranda July, author
of The First Bad Man No-one's there to watch her, so she just waits
for the lights to turn on, waits to begin her performance. No-one
is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything,
and waits, growing up on the outskirts of an affluent but
threadbare New England township, on the outer edge of popularity.
She doesn't necessarily understand what she is seeing, but she
records faithfully and with absolute clarity the unfurling of her
awkward youth, under even more awkward parenting. As they
alternately mock, ignore, undermine and discount their daughter,
Ruth's parents present now as damaged, now as inadequate, now as
monstrous. All the while the Future comes towards them all,
steadily, inexorably, for some of them fatally. And the fog of the
Past and the abuses committed under it gathers, swirls, settles,
intermittently clears. Watching the future come, the reader of Very
Cold People is immobilized, transfixed as much by the gross
failures of the adults to be adults, as by the determinedly
graceful arc Ruth's trajectory makes towards an adulthood of her
own making. Longlisted for the Wingate Prize 2023 Financial Times
Best Debuts 2022
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