Girls Against God
Cathi Unsworth, journalist and author of\xa0Bad Penny Blues, as well as numerous other novels, speaks with artists and author\xa0Jenny Hval\xa0about her recent book\xa0Girls Against God.\nAt once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, genre-warping new novel from the author of the acclaimed\xa0Paradise Rot.\n\u201cIt\u2019s 1992 and I\u2019m the Gloomiest Child Queen.\u201d\nWelcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice and her hatred, things start stirring themselves up around her. In a corner of Oslo, a coven of witches begins cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a black metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting\xa0Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. Awful things happen in aspic.\n\nJenny Hval\u2019s latest novel is a radical fusion of feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, gender and art.\nHosted and produced by Sam Kelly;\xa0Mixed by Samantha Doyle;\xa0Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies