Lowest Common Denominator Evan Rail The daughter of a butcher

The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary

No boring pavement pounding here

grinding and brewing

One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2024

The pages can be used to write a letter to a loved one or perhaps framed to decorate interiors

Lowest Common Denominator Evan Rail The daughter of a butcherFor readers of Tove Jansson and Eileen Myles, Lowest Common Denominator is an ecstatic coming of age novel by the Finlandia prize winning author of The Red Book of Farewells Writing in the wake of her father's death, the narrator of Pirkko Saisio's autofictional novel (translated from Finnish by Mia Spangenberg) transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth, where she navigates life as an only child of communist parents. Convinced she will grow up