TY - BOOK AU - Garréta,Anne AU - Ramadan,Emma TI - In concrete SN - 9781646050550 AV - PQ2667.A7737 D3613 2021 U1 - 843/.914 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Dallas, Texas PB - Deep Vellum Publishing N1 - Originally published in French as Dans l'beton by Grasset in Paris, France in 2017 N2 - "Garreta's first new novel in a decade follows two young sisters who are dragged into one adventure after another when their father finds himself in possession of a concrete mixer. As he seeks to modernize every aspect of their lives, disaster strikes when the younger sister, Poulette, is subsumed by concrete. Through puns, wordplay, and dizzying verbal effect, Garreta reinvents the novel form and blurs the line between spoken and written language in an attempt to modernize - or fundamentally undercut - the elasticity of communication"-- ER -