Wetlands

With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel''s 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany.The book is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical and psychological, of its narrator''s body and mind. It is difficult to overstate the raunchiness of the...