IGGY
By Edy Poppy
We’ve no time to lose, we say to each other, time and time again, like a mantra. Choosing not to keep Iggy has made the mantra even more important. Not choosing Iggy means…
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We’ve no time to lose, we say to each other, time and time again, like a mantra. Choosing not to keep Iggy has made the mantra even more important. Not choosing Iggy means choosing art, doesn’t it? Marina Abramović has taken three abortions. She claims that having children makes women lag behind in the art world. That you have to be conscious of what you prioritize to spend your energy on. It won’t be on me now, I think, stroking my flat belly. IGGY is a novel about fear of the conventional and the lust for exceedance. But also about the unsettling loneliness of someone who never wants to make commitments.
Product information
Publication year2024
Pages224
CategoryFiction
Praise
…an intense novel from the talented and daring Edy Poppy[...] Iggy is written with a vehement and fascinating drive, a novel with several layers, brave and without compromise.
Guri Hjeltnes, VGThere's not a plethora of Norwegian novels about horny, whiskey-drinking, writing women who on top of all this discuss the yearning for a child. Author Edy Poppy play with and challenge art and life both in this whirlwind of a novel.
Hanne Kristin Wolden, KlassekampenThere's something both effortless and seductively bold about Edy Poppy's Iggy. The novel offers wit, steaming sex and several sad, but true acknowledgements. Words like 'shameless' and 'without boundaries' can be added as well.
Turid Larsen, Dagsavisen
