Blutbuch

The narrator in Blutbuch identifies neither as a man nor as a woman. Having grown up in a Swiss suburb, they now live in Zurich, having escaped the narrow structures of their origins, and feel comfortable in their non-binary body and own sexuality. But then the grandmother falls ill, suffering from dementia, and the narrator’s ego begins to come to terms with the past: Why are there only fragmentary memories of their own childhood? Why is the grandmother barely able to distance herself from her sister who died at an early age? And what happened to the great-aunt who disappeared as a young woman? The narrator resists the motherly culture of silence and investigates their non-traditional female bloodline.