Reading and discussion will be in German

Her debut novel was nominated for both the German and Swiss Book Prizes. Now Michelle Steinbeck’s second, wild and explosive novel is here. When the protagonist Fila receives the message "I'm sorry, your mother has been killed" she embarks on a road trip from her home in Switzerland to Italy, the land her grandmother left as a young woman and the place her mother disappeared to. "Favorita" is a literary thriller about revenge, narrated with idiosyncratic humour, that radically explores questions of identity, belonging, sexual desire and patriarchal violence.