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And the Oedipus strand introduces a playful, referential pleasure.” -  Lauren Groff, 'Saturated in mythology and fairy tales, Everything Under is weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling.

Everything Under is a transgender retelling of the Oedipus myth, but it is also a convergence for myth: a meeting place. Traveling toward Thebes, he encountered Laius, who provoked a quarrel in which Oedipus killed him. It often reads like a suspense novel, built around the question of how the horrifying sequence of events would play out. She has been searching for her mother ever since Sarah abandoned her at 16. . While it follows the outline of Oedipus Rex, Everything Under subjects it to twists and inversions that are both very contemporary and as ancient as the great Greek epics. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... What is the name of the Roman goddess of grain? Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel’s name for the thing she feared most. It is a radical rewrite of the Oedipus myth and a penetrating study of turbulent mother-daughter relations. Her sentences have an aqueous quality.”—The New Yorker “Skillful and imaginative. “Everything Under’s original story, of Gretel searching for her wild mother, of Marcus’s flight on the river, is beautiful, haunting, and propulsive. Daisy Johnson's debut novel turns classical myth on its head and takes readers to a modern-day England unfamiliar to most. (Tradition has it that his name, which means “Swollen-Foot,” was a result of his feet having been pinned together, but modern scholars are skeptical of that etymology.)

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. A dream of a nightmare. Please call before going to store. Oedipus, in Greek mythology, the king of Thebes who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. The result is an intense exploration of identity, both familial and gender, as well as an acid trip of storytelling inventiveness.

A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak.

Everything Under is a transgender retelling of the Oedipus myth, but it is also a convergence for myth: a meeting place.

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- Evie Wyld, 'Everything Under is a force of nature ... Like Iris Murdoch's 1954 novel Under the Net, Johnson's Man Booker Prize finalist is concerned with language, secrets and the damage wrought by what's left unsaid.' To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. - Jeff VanderMeer, The Guardian, 'Everything Under grabbed me from the first page and wouldn't let me go.

The Bonak’s ominous presence is palpable through the entire book. She coins words, channels outlier voices, and fractures chronology.


Like my favorite novel of 2017, Home Fire, which was based on Sophocles’ Antigone (the concluding play in the Oedipus trilogy), Johnson’s first novel is inspired by the myth of Oedipus. There are elements of various fairytales and legends, combined in an entirely novel way. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018.

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