Alma lives in a rural village where she grows a garden, raises animals and cares for her young children while her husband teaches at a nearby university. Celeste lives in the city, where she makes ceramics, travels in style and curates a worldly sensibility while raising her sons. Both women seek a rooted contentment beyond the scope of their own access, a life of creativity, agency and fulfilment.
Only one of them is real. The Shame follows Alma as she hurtles down a dark highway, alone, in a search to find out which one it is. A modern fable both blistering and surreal, The Shame explores the remote landscapes of desire and envy, revealing how in a world increasingly shaped by digital fabrication, what we imagine, and how we act on it, can either free us or become our undoing.
From the author of Helen of Nowhere comes another wild ride through the caverns of the contemporary psyche.
| ISBN: | 9781804272961 |
| Publication date: | 28th January 2027 |
| Author: | Makenna Goodman |
| Publisher: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 140 pages |
| Primary Genre | Literary Fiction |
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Alma lives in a rural village where she grows a garden, raises animals and cares for her young children while her husband teaches at a nearby university. Celeste lives in the city, where she makes ceramics, travels in style and curates a worldly sensibility while raising her sons.
The Shame features in the following genres: Literary Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Paperback. £11.69, down from the £12.99 cover price. Pre-order. 28th January 2027.
The Shame was written by Makenna Goodman and published by Fitzcarraldo Editions
The Shame has 140 pages
£11.69, reduced from £12.99. Pre-order. 28th January 2027.
