Carrying: The Substance meets Rosemary’s Baby in this trans body horror

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You’d be hard pressed to find a single cliché in Samantha Josephs’ debut novel, Carrying. One sentence reads: “Her heart drops to her surgically-constructed vagina”. Another: “You’re too cunt to die”.For the author, this was entirely the point. On the phone, she tells me she approaches crafting a sentence similarly to Ocean Vuong, who believes writers should aim to write sentences the human species has never encountered. Withhellip;read more raquo;