Why read I Am Sovereign?

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'One of the funniest, most finely achieved comic novels, even by her own standard ... I think it's a masterpiece.' ALI SMITH

'I think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. [Her work] is unified by its spirit of adventure.' KEVIN BARRY

Charles, a forty-year-old boutique teddy bear…

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1 author picked I Am Sovereign as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Betsy Robinson

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Hint: You have to read a hard copy of this book because the comedy is designed into the fonts and layout, which could never be translated into an ebook.

This is a free-for-all bumper car ride between people and their ids, filled with abrupt and perfect transitions that are so logical in their illogic that they are funny.

But not only is it unique and funny, but it is founded on a profound understanding of silence—its essential healing and our inability to find it.

This book is so inventive I’m kind of amazed (1) that it got published and (2)…

From Betsy's list on laughing while squirming with new self-awareness.