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Yellow Monsters / Gelbe Monster
A Novel
A furious and witty debut about female rage and violence – as relevant as it is necessary
»All she'd done was fall in love. Is that supposed to be a crime or something?«
Charlie, a PhD candidate in mathematics, is sitting on the U-Bahn with a black eye googling »bad person«. She’s on her way to an anti-aggression course for women. Her best friend Ella has told her she has to do the course if she wants to keep staying in her spare room. She can’t go back to her own apartment, because she reduced it to rubble with her own hands and a blunt object. But Charlie wants...
Charlie, a PhD candidate in mathematics, is sitting on the U-Bahn with a black eye googling »bad person«. She’s on her way to an anti-aggression course for women. Her best friend Ella has told her she has to do the course if she wants to keep staying in her spare room. She can’t go back to her own apartment, because she reduced it to rubble with her own hands and a blunt object. But Charlie wants...
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»All she'd done was fall in love. Is that supposed to be a crime or something?«
Charlie, a PhD candidate in mathematics, is sitting on the U-Bahn with a black eye googling »bad person«. She’s on her way to an anti-aggression course for women. Her best friend Ella has told her she has to do the course if she wants to keep staying in her spare room. She can’t go back to her own apartment, because she reduced it to rubble with her own hands and a blunt object. But Charlie wants nothing to do with the career criminals she expects to find there. Is it really her fault that her ex Valentin was always driving her mad? The sad thing is, their relationship had started so well. With Valentin at her side, she finally felt beautiful, like she was a better person. Until things started to fall apart. It is only through her interactions with the other women in the group that Charlie begins to take responsibility for her actions, to start telling her story in a different way. With Ella’s support, she begins the process of escaping a spiral of rage, pain, and shame.
With levity and wit, in Yellow Monsters, Clara Leinemann tells the story of a relationship that seems perfect from the outside – until it isn’t. It is a story of traditional ideals of love, of female rage and emotional dependency. A captivating debut novel, whose protagonist is so true to life and likable that readers won’t want to say goodbye to her when they get to the last page.
Charlie, a PhD candidate in mathematics, is sitting on the U-Bahn with a black eye googling »bad person«. She’s on her way to an anti-aggression course for women. Her best friend Ella has told her she has to do the course if she wants to keep staying in her spare room. She can’t go back to her own apartment, because she reduced it to rubble with her own hands and a blunt object. But Charlie wants nothing to do with the career criminals she expects to find there. Is it really her fault that her ex Valentin was always driving her mad? The sad thing is, their relationship had started so well. With Valentin at her side, she finally felt beautiful, like she was a better person. Until things started to fall apart. It is only through her interactions with the other women in the group that Charlie begins to take responsibility for her actions, to start telling her story in a different way. With Ella’s support, she begins the process of escaping a spiral of rage, pain, and shame.
With levity and wit, in Yellow Monsters, Clara Leinemann tells the story of a relationship that seems perfect from the outside – until it isn’t. It is a story of traditional ideals of love, of female rage and emotional dependency. A captivating debut novel, whose protagonist is so true to life and likable that readers won’t want to say goodbye to her when they get to the last page.
2026, 192 pages