Thistle
Thistle’s father passed away when she was thirteen, and at the time she didn’t really know what death meant. Now, at thirty-three, grief hits her hard. Thistle desperately wants to return to easier times, when the world was still kind and her body was innocent. Armed with a hard drive full of childhood photos, Thistle attempts to bring her old self back to life—online, where strangers love teenage girls.
Nadia De Vries
Nadia de Vries is a bilingual author from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She previously published three English poetry collections, including Know Thy Audience (MOIST, 2023), and the academic dissertation Digital Corpses (University of Amsterdam, 2020). Her Dutch prose debut De bakvis (Uitgeverij Pluim, 2022) was longlisted for two of the biggest literary prizes of the Low Countries. Thistle was her first Dutch work to be translated into English.
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