About the book: A near future in the rural periphery: Gesa seeks refuge, wants to get away from the omnipresent digital dependency of life in the city. She and her daughter Marie move into an old house surrounded by ivy. She joins a country commune that shares her longing for originality and promises the two of them an emotional home. But something is not right. Gesa’s body is fighting back as if it is being poisoned. Where are the symptoms coming from? And what do they have to do with her own mother? In highly sensitive language, Maren Wurster tells of the search for freedom and an alternative way of life in a world that seems to be becoming increasingly unfree.

Maren Wursterborn in Filderstadt in 1976, studied philosophy, literature and film studies in Cologne and literary writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. Her novel Das Fell was published in 2017, followed by the memoir Papa stirbt, Mama auch in 2021 and the novelEinebeiläufige Entscheidung and the essay Totenwache in 2022. In 2023, she was selected for the Bremen funding program Tapetenwechsel. She lives with her son in Wendland.

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