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Charlotte Roche's debut novel, "Wetlands," follows Helen Memel, an eighteen-year-old recovering from hemorrhoid surgery in a proctology ward. Determined to reunite her divorced parents by her bedside, she recounts her past sexual and physical experiences with unflinching, often shocking honesty. A global bestseller on publication in Germany in 2008, the novel explores sex, hygiene, and societal expectations of the female body with dark humor and confrontational intimacy.