People with No Charisma by Jente Posthuma The Washi Station Verge refers to the grid

Verge refers to the grid of parallel translucent lines ("vergeures") that was formed in handmade paper as the sheets were laid to dry (the origin of the term "laid finish")

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and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal

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Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate

People with No Charisma by Jente Posthuma The Washi Station Verge refers to the gridFrom the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of What I'd Rather Not Think About comes a darkly humorous novel about multigenerational family dynamics and individuality in Dutch suburbia. An unnamed narrator grows up overshadowed by her unconventional mother, an exJehovah's Witness and former television star with an inferiority complex. Her father is the head of a psychiatric institution, whose only form of parenting is to offer his daughter