Mammoth's
protagonist is an old-fashioned lesbian, out of sync with modern
life. Eager to have a child, she has no choice but to have sex with men. She swaps her
urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, and within it, a transformation takes place: she learns
to live an unmediated life.
This small bomb
of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a howling crescendo of social
rage, leaving us at the mercy of Eva Baltasar's wild voice.