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"Terribly moving. A clear-sighted, poignant rumination on loneliness, love, the melancholy of age and of youth - and, in its quiet way, the end of the world." - China Miville, author of Perdido Street StationAn utterly original coming-of-age tale, marked by wrenching humor and staggering charisma, about a young woman resisting the savagery of adulthood in a community of the elderly rejecting the promise of youth."It's too hot for most of the clothes I packed to come here, when I thought this would only be for a week or two. My mother kissed me with those purple-brown lips of hers and said, we'll be back, hold tight."Seventeen-year-old Kid doesn't know where her parents are. They left her with her grandmother Lolly, promising to return soon.
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Season Butler is a writer and artist born in Washington, DC. Season also works as a dramaturg, and teaches Performance Studies and Creative Writing. An early draft of her debut novel, Cygnet, was shortlisted for the 2014 SI Leeds Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women. She lives and works between London and Berlin.
