Mammoth Braithwaite this genre-defying novel is not

this genre-defying novel is not only an unflinching exposé of the conditions faced by prisoners during the Tsarist period

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Mammoth Braithwaite this genre-defying novel is notMammoths protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. Shes inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in sex workall in pursuit of life in the raw. This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a