"Helen Memel lies in the Department of Internal Medicine at Maria Hilf Hospital. While she waits for her divorced parents to come and visit her - who she hopes will finally be reconciled by the side of her hospital bed - she begins to examine those parts of her body usually seen as distinctly 'unladylike'. She lets the orderly, Robin, take photos of those areas her curious gaze can't reach. And, on the side, she tends to her collection of avocado stones - which also happen to provide her with invaluable sexual services ...

Wetlands takes an unflinching, and very funny, look at one of the last remaining taboos of today. Courageous, radical and provocative, Charlotte Roche's novel rebels against hygiene hysteria, the sterile aesthetics of women's magazines and standardized dealings with the female body and its sexuality. This is a wonderfully wild story of a heroine both pleasure-seeking and vulnerable, who voices what others do not even dare to think. "

I ran out of books to read on my last holiday in Germany so I bought this book in a hurry from the Air Berlin terminal at the Berlin Tegel airport. There wasn't much to choose from at the books in English section so I chose this one. The book cover promised the book to be very funny and in a rush I was mistaken to think that it is a fluffy chick lit novel. I read the book in the plane back home and I have to admit that if I had something else to read, I most likely wouldn't have read Wetlands. Sure it is provocative, but too much information in my opinion.

Sent as a RABCK - thank you! Can't wait to read it. :>)

I agree - the still is plenty of hype on this book - it's just too much information. I almost put it down but by the end - well, it's just graphic. Off it goes as a RABCK . . .

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

off into the wild . . .

Lots of gross and shock value descriptions. The parts of the book that deal with Helens family and Robin could have been developed more to make the story more interesting.