#WITReadathon
Discussing this year's voice-y, poetic, blunt, and bruising Women in Translation group book—what did you think of it? (Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko, translated from Ukrainian by Halyna Hryn)

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This is not a sponsored video, and unless otherwise stated, I bought these books myself.

00:00 Intro—so what is this book about?
02:45 Disaster woman lit vibes
06:01 Is it difficult to read?
7:16 Metaphors for days
8:42 Stream of consciousnessssss
10:13 "a professional Ukrainianizer"
13:34 Let's talk about bad sex
16:24 Humor to the rescue tho
17:07 DYLAN
17:22 Notes on the translation
20:31 Also there's poetry and she's confusing
21:19 Other work by Zabuzhko
22:12 Final thoughts (with an Ali Smith cameo)

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