We The Parasites by A. V. Marraccini BBC It is a collection that

It is a collection that sits on the threshold between the personal and the profound

edited and introduced by Richard Zenith

about a mother who prefers lettuces to life

But the book is very much more than a personal reminiscence and family history

We The Parasites by A. V. Marraccini BBC It is a collection thatIn her debut book, A. V. Marraccini explores how we inhabit works of art, and how our sense of longing informs and changes our relationship to them. Intertwining fig wasps, Updike, Genet, Twombly, Rilke, jewel heists, and a vividly rendered panoply of histories and myths from classical antiquity, We the Parasites both tells a strange love story and makes a slantwise argument about reading with the body, and what it ultimately means to know, and to