She revisits the stables where she grew up, hoping to find a clue. However, when a body that strongly resembles that of her mother-but isn't-emerges at a nearby morgue, Gretel resumes her search with renewed focus. While Gretel still holds out hope that Sarah is alive, calling hospitals and morgues every few months, she tries to repress her childhood memories of her mother as a way of coping. Sixteen years ago, Gretel's mother, Sarah, disappeared. With Everything Under, Johnson became the youngest writer to become a finalist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize at the age of 27. A contemporary retelling of the Greek play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, British author Daisy Johnson’s novel Everything Under (2018) follows the story of Gretel, a young woman searching for her disappeared mother, Sarah, a character loosely modeled after Oedipus's mother, Jocasta.
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