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In her controversial first novel, "Wetlands, " Roche wrote about sex and the female body in an unprecedentedly frank and intimate way. Now, her second novel is just as raw and powerful, but is a more mature and impressive work that deals with sex, death, fidelity, and the question of what is expected from a 21st century wife and mother.

With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novels 18 year old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany.Since its debut in February, the novel Feuchtgebiete, in German has sold more than 680, 000 copies, and is the biggest selling book on Amazon anywhere in the world.The book is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct...

In a sexually and anatomically explicit novel, Roche exposes the double bind of female sexuality, delivering a compulsively readable and fearlessly intimate manifesto on sex, hygiene, and the repercussions of family trauma.