COOP : A Novelette – Nida Sajid

Softback

150 pages

Hajar Press

ISBN: 9781914221385

Lena is a part-time bookseller in a bougie design studio in Oxford Circus. In between minimum-wage work under a politically hostile boss and strained communications with her parents, her days are shaped by a fraught relationship with food, ambiguous experiments in creative writing, and mounting pressure to find a 'proper' postgraduate job. In taut, pocket-sized vignettes, COOP reveals a suffocating lattice of language that makes up a precarious London life.

But as each word of her story unravels, Lena discovers interstices between them--to find autonomy and escape.