The Girl with the Full Figure Is Your Daughter introduces readers to a dark new literary talent.
Tapping into the voyeuristic human compulsion that attracts us to the dirty little secrets of peoples' lives, Oscar Martens takes readers on a journey into moral obscurity and invites the reader to get to know a strange cast of characters.
Reading Martens' stories is much like watching a David Lynch movieâboth peel back layers of contemporary society, revealing an often sordid underside. "My mission as a writer is to throw words, ideas and images together in a way that excites," says Martens.
In the title story, the girl with the full figure reveals a poorly kept secret to a family more at ease with denial than healing. Unexplainable compulsions lead to suspect sexual liasons. Planes crash. Corporate secrets are stolen. Someone is murdered. It's all here, all told by a formidable talent unafraid to play with narrative form, revealing layers and nuances hidden in the periphery of the text. Oscar Martens' stories are gritty and ceaselessly gripping.
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