By EDY POPPY

Reviewed by BRITTA STROMEYER

“For my husband, who has given me everything, even what I didn’t want. (He’s now my ex-husband.)” reads the dedication in Edy Poppy’s award-winning and spicy debut novel Anatomy. Monotony. It’s an irresistible hook, inviting the reader into a novel that explores the author’s experiences in an open marriage, the evolving sense of place as a search for identity, and the adventure and challenges inherent in the act of writing itself:

“I want to write about the people, the loneliness, and the language here. I feel at home but I’m a stranger, don’t belong, can’t express what I truly feel.”