Tilt
- Auteur: Emma Pattee (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse debuutroman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: S&S/Marysue Rucci Books
- Verschijnt: 25 maart 2025
- Omvang: 240 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: $ 27,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 19,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
Emma Pattee Tilt recensie en review
- “The storytelling in Tilt is brisk [and] as funny as a novel about humanity at its worst can be… Pattee’s ambivalence about human goodness is a powerful thing; it calls into question the assumptions we make about ourselves.” (Washington Post)
- “Tilt is a swift, exhilarating punch to the gut, the most embodied twenty-four hours of narrative I can remember reading. Through the eyes of the prickly, funny, and very pregnant narrator, we viscerally experience the surreal, unbearable, comic, and beautiful ways that humans behave in a crisis. The Road meets Nightbitch meets What to Expect When You’re Expecting. I loved this novel.” (Linda Kiesling, auteur van The Golden State and Mobility)
Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Emma Pattee
Set over the course of a single day, an electrifying debut novel, following one woman’s journey across a transformed city, carrying the weight of her past and a fervent hope for the future.
Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen.
Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there’s nothing to do but walk.
Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. If she can just make it home, she’s determined to change her life.
A propulsive debut, Tilt is a primal scream of a novel about the disappointments and desires we all carry, and what each of us will do for the people we love.
Emma Pattee is a climate journalist and fiction writer. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere. She lives in Oregon.