Death's a Bitch
A Novel
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Death's a Bitch
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Eloise Rodger
Summary
“A wildly imaginative romance, and a heartbreaking tale of sisterhood, Death’s a Bitch is like nothing else I’ve read before—it will have you laughing out loud on one page and sobbing the next.” —Kathryn Stockett, author of The Calamity Club
Marcie had been gone for three weeks when I met Death.
Eighteen-year-old Aggie should be spending her weekends pub-crawling through freshman year and secretly hating all her new friends. Instead, she’s passing her Sundays in a room with stick-on flowers and padded table corners, visiting her younger sister, Marcie, who has been placed in a full-time psychiatric facility for a serious eating disorder. Aggie feels lost without her best friend, and she’d do anything for Marcie to get better. . . .
Then, one evening, the Grim Reaper appears in the dim light of Aggie’s bedroom—not a hooded man with a scythe but an elegantly dressed, impossibly frustrated mother. And she wants to make a deal. If Aggie delivers on Death’s unusual demands, Marcie will come home safely. So, there isn’t much choice. Aggie accepts.
Death’s a Bitch is a Faustian tale with a beating heart; a love story between two sisters; an exploration of loss, sickness and siblinghood; and a novel about growing up, letting go and learning to live with your mortality. It’s a wickedly clever debut from a prodigiously gifted young writer that asks the ultimate question: how far would you go to save the life of someone you loved?
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Critic reviews
“A wildly imaginative romance, and a heartbreaking tale of sisterhood, Death’s a Bitch is like nothing else I’ve read before—it will have you laughing out loud on one page and sobbing the next.” —Kathryn Stockett, author of The Calamity Club
“Eloise Rodger is a breathtakingly great writer, and I bet that if you read Death’s a Bitch you’ll be her fan for life, too—and possibly longer. What a wild joyride, and what a wrenching descent and return. Rodger's sentences are spring-loaded with invention, and the grief and the love here feel almost unbearably real.” —Karen Russell, author of The Antidote
“Death's a Bitch is marvelously composed of both mischief and heartache. The book's unforgettably irreverent voice emerges from a deep well of reverence for family and what it means to live through agony together.” —Megha Majumdar, author of A Guardian and a Thief
“This brilliantly audacious novel may be about Death with a capital D, but make no mistake: every sentence vibrates with life. Rodger’s prose shifts in an instant from hilarious to heartbreaking without losing an ounce of emotional truth. Aggie is a Caulfieldesque antihero who rides along with you long after you finish, her sensitive, humor-laced perspective coloring everything you see. This novel is sisterhood at its most painful, love at its most impossible, mortality at its most personal; like Aggie, Eloise Rodger is wise beyond her years.” —Julie Orringer, author of Luna, Phoenix, Queen
“Death’s a Bitch is a smart and intriguing debut. Eloise Rodger is a precocious new talent.” —Alice Winn, author of Worship
“Exuberant, dark and very funny, Death's a Bitch captures the grief of illness, ferocity of sisterhood, and the awkward flush of new love with a rare emotional wisdom, tenderness and wit. It is brilliantly observant and quirky all at once. When I finished, I wanted to hurtle myself towards living. This book deserves every effusive accolade it receives. Every sentence sings and there is so much heart.” —Una Mannion, author of A Crooked Tree
“Bitingly funny yet sincere. . . . The plot keeps readers on tenterhooks throughout. This coming-of-age story has heart and humor to spare.” —Publishers Weekly
“Eloise Rodger is a breathtakingly great writer, and I bet that if you read Death’s a Bitch you’ll be her fan for life, too—and possibly longer. What a wild joyride, and what a wrenching descent and return. Rodger's sentences are spring-loaded with invention, and the grief and the love here feel almost unbearably real.” —Karen Russell, author of The Antidote
“Death's a Bitch is marvelously composed of both mischief and heartache. The book's unforgettably irreverent voice emerges from a deep well of reverence for family and what it means to live through agony together.” —Megha Majumdar, author of A Guardian and a Thief
“This brilliantly audacious novel may be about Death with a capital D, but make no mistake: every sentence vibrates with life. Rodger’s prose shifts in an instant from hilarious to heartbreaking without losing an ounce of emotional truth. Aggie is a Caulfieldesque antihero who rides along with you long after you finish, her sensitive, humor-laced perspective coloring everything you see. This novel is sisterhood at its most painful, love at its most impossible, mortality at its most personal; like Aggie, Eloise Rodger is wise beyond her years.” —Julie Orringer, author of Luna, Phoenix, Queen
“Death’s a Bitch is a smart and intriguing debut. Eloise Rodger is a precocious new talent.” —Alice Winn, author of Worship
“Exuberant, dark and very funny, Death's a Bitch captures the grief of illness, ferocity of sisterhood, and the awkward flush of new love with a rare emotional wisdom, tenderness and wit. It is brilliantly observant and quirky all at once. When I finished, I wanted to hurtle myself towards living. This book deserves every effusive accolade it receives. Every sentence sings and there is so much heart.” —Una Mannion, author of A Crooked Tree
“Bitingly funny yet sincere. . . . The plot keeps readers on tenterhooks throughout. This coming-of-age story has heart and humor to spare.” —Publishers Weekly
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