"The narrator, an unnamed young woman, has relocated from London to Frankfurt after securing a job translating Japanese for a famous games company, hoping for radical self-reinvention."
"Now in her 20s, she feels she is waiting to arrive in her own life, for some capital-S Something to happen that will finally deliver her into it."
"Frankfurt, Germany's aggressively uncool financial capital, seems an ideal setting: a place so nondescript it resembles a blank canvas."
"A tall, dark, rakishly handsome stranger retrieves her forgotten umbrella on the tram, and this encounter becomes the novel's gravitational centre."
What Am I, a Deer? follows an unnamed young woman who moves from London to Frankfurt to work as a translator. She grapples with feelings of inadequacy and a longing for self-discovery. The story begins with her childhood memory of singing Celine Dion, reflecting her struggle between youth and adulthood. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger on the tram becomes pivotal, symbolizing her desire for connection and transformation in a city that feels like a blank canvas for her life.
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