Lost on Me - Veronica Raimo
 
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZE 2024

Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety; a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions; and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations, and a complicated relationship with truth and storytelling ...