A sweat-slicked, painfully funny novel about obsession, ambition and a woman's doomed attempt to run from herself.
A woman walks into a gym and lies to get a job.
The gym is a palace of possibility. Here she can transform. Become unrecognizable.
No more presentations or promotions or emails.
She can push herself to her limits, then push past them. Lie some more. Perfect her body, and never lose control again.
And she can finally get her probation officer off her back.
But we can never really escape who we are. People start asking questions but she can't let them take this new life from her. They obviously don't know the things she's capable of.
Autorentext
Verena Kessler was born in 1988 in Hamburg and lives in Leipzig. Her debut novel, Die Gespenster von Demmin (The Ghosts of Demmin), was nominated for numerous prizes and was awarded the Kranichsteiner Youth Literature Fellowship. Her novel Eva won the literary 'Der zweite Roman' prize. Gym is her third novel.