COOP

Nida Sajid is a postdisciplinary educator, organiser and writer. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Birkbeck, University of London, specialising in experimental literature.COOP is her first book.

‘Nida Sajidʼs inventive, hybrid debut novel combines seemingly incongruous elements to create subversive new realities … Sajidʼs book shows us we have more power than we think, already right now.’ — Still Point‘A treasure of a book. Nida Sajid exercises an inventiveness and lightness of touch that transform the daily humiliations of retail work and zero-hour contracts, calorie counting and pompous dates into (to quote Lena quoting Marx) a “coup d’état in miniature” upon the page … this novelette is as bright as it is cutting.’ — Hannah Regel, author of The Last Sane Woman‘COOP is unlike anything else I’ve read recently. Addictive and cathartic to read with an immediacy that propels you through the novelette, Nida’s incisive prose captures Lena’s fleeting thoughts and feelings as she tries to survive … clinging to work, messages, poetry, writing and the news in an effort to resist disappearance. This book left me aching and feeling more human.’ — Mohamed Tonsy, bookseller, ceramicist and author of You Must Believe in Spring‘Form and content play off one another in this experimental series of vignettes, which come together to offer a commentary—sardonic yet earnest, poignant yet breezy—on the disjointed anxiety and pervasive sense of loss that mark the times we live in today.’ — Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, author of The Centre‘Tender and wry—Sajid dissects the nice violences of liberal culture, skewering the affectations of the complacent classes, in this bookshop novel for genocidal times.’ — Louise O'Hare, author of Centrefold 1974: A Memoir