Carrying: The Substance meets Rosemary’s Baby in this trans body horror
We speak to Samantha Josephs about her debut novel, Carrying, and the ‘fun, fertile ground’ of subverting transphobic tropes
Black News 
You’d be hard pressed to find a single cliché in Samantha Josephs’ debut novel, Carrying. One sentence reads: “Her heart drops to her surgically-constructed vagina”. Another: “You’re too cunt to die”.
For the author, this was entirely the point. On the phone, she tells me she approaches crafting a sentence similarly to Ocean Vuong, who believes writers should aim to write sentences the human species has never encountered. Withhellip;
read more raquo;
