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“Treats problems of social care slantwise, with a caustic charm liable to leave you blindsided by its most painful turns . . . Powerful, funny and highly manipulative.” —Guardian
Bina is a woman who’s had enough and isn’t afraid to say so. “I’m here to warn you, not reassure you,” she announces at the book’s outset. In a series of taut, urgent missives she attempts to set the record of her life straight—and in doing so, to be useful to others. Yet being useful is what landed her in jail. Empathy is her Achilles’ heel.
Her troubles seem to stem from an injured stranger named Eddie, and they multiply when her charity extends from delivering meals to the elderly to working with the dying. No good deed of hers goes unpunished and the costs of her capacity for care are legion, as one by one she is denied her livelihood, her health, and her freedom. Yet her voice continues resolutely, an act of friendship in itself.
Bina is an unsettling, thought-provoking novel of formal inventiveness and moral and emotional complexity by a bold and talented writer.

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- Release date: February 2, 2021
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- ISBN: 9781681375502
- Release date: February 2, 2021
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“Treats problems of social care slantwise, with a caustic charm liable to leave you blindsided by its most painful turns . . . Powerful, funny and highly manipulative.” —Guardian
Bina is a woman who’s had enough and isn’t afraid to say so. “I’m here to warn you, not reassure you,” she announces at the book’s outset. In a series of taut, urgent missives she attempts to set the record of her life straight—and in doing so, to be useful to others. Yet being useful is what landed her in jail. Empathy is her Achilles’ heel.
Her troubles seem to stem from an injured stranger named Eddie, and they multiply when her charity extends from delivering meals to the elderly to working with the dying. No good deed of hers goes unpunished and the costs of her capacity for care are legion, as one by one she is denied her livelihood, her health, and her freedom. Yet her voice continues resolutely, an act of friendship in itself.
Bina is an unsettling, thought-provoking novel of formal inventiveness and moral and emotional complexity by a bold and talented writer.

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New York Review Books
Kindle Book
Release date: February 2, 2021
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ISBN: 9781681375502
Release date: February 2, 2021
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ISBN: 9781681375502
File size: 1053 KB
Release date: February 2, 2021
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- Anakana Schofield - Author
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