The Girl Who Was Tuesday

Quirky, original, and a little bit batshit, Beatriz Seelaender's delightfully obfuscating novella is a chaotic meditation on identity, autonomy, and individuality set against a veggie-based murder mystery where the reader is always, deliberately, one step behind.Mariam Grubbs is Tuesday. Not Monday, Wednesday, or Thursday through Sunday. Just Tuesday.To keep track of their day-to-day lives, Tuesday and her six other selves must maintain an open and honest line of communication through whiteboard messages, and not a little bit of private notes and coded games of chess. So what happens when Scotland Yard comes knocking-a dead friend on their books and Mariam looking like the prime suspect? A whole lot of chaos, manipulation, and a magical mystery tour of London as Tuesday, always the responsible one, tries to solve the case of which Day dunnit and why.A fantastically obscure tale of self- and/or sisterhood, The Girl Who Was Tuesday takes an absurdist look at the concept of individualism from the perspective of someone who is anything but.For fans of: the London Underground / coded games of chess / The Man Who Was Thursday / absurdist comedy / Jekyll and Hyde syndrome / Oona Out of Order / Severance / bizarro whodunnits