Girls Against God - Jenny Hval

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Finished Girls Against God by Jenny Hval, which is more like a collection of increasingly bizarre vignettes than a novel— I didn't know, going into this, that Hval is a musician apparently best known for trippy feminist concept albums, but this was in fact basically a trippy feminist concept album as a book. To be honest, it got a bit too weird for my tastes by the end - at least once in a burst-out-laughing "WTF??" way - and I kind of wish she'd done more with time-traveling Edvard Munch and the vengeful teenage model of his painting "Puberty" since this was one of the things in the blurb that had piqued my interest, but there were some stand-out scenes and, overall, I liked how reading this felt like being pulled along a current, from idea to weird tableau to resonant idea.