Perla har en drøm om selv at være forfatter og er netop ved at skrive en roman om en kvinde som minder påfaldende meget om Maria

at en anden verden er både nødvendig og mulig

Hendes svar er denne bog

En opvækstroman

self-absorption and the tyrannies of chronological time

Beautiful World, Where Are You Perla har en drøm omAlice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they worry about sex and friendship and the times they live in. Will they