Joost de Vries recommends
Breakwater (2023)
Marijke Schermer
"Breakwater is that rare kind of novel, equally mysterious and profound, that effortlessly brings forth the unspoken paradoxes that lurk in every household; the need to be sheltered versus the desire to be free, the craving for intimacy versus the inability to divulge one's secrets. And the secrets Marijke Schermer writes about are big and dark and violent. They show us that the wounds of sexual aggression may be covered up, but never fully heal. Breakwater is easily one of the best books to come out of the Netherlands in a long time."
