The Stella prize-winning novelist who chronicled the life of Marina Abramović talks about battling chronic illness and her explosive new novel One morning when she was in her 20s working as a goat herder in return for food and board, the author Heather Rose found herself on the Greek island of Sifnos straddling a pig. Her host had asked her to follow him to the pig shed. “And he whipped out a knife,” she recalls, making a slashing motion, “and cut the pig’s throat. And then hung [the carcass] on a hook right outside the onion shed and it dripped all afternoon.” Continue reading...
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