Ronja von Rönne leans back, puts her feet up on the kitchen table and lights a cigarette, hair styled in a messy bun on top of her head. You could say she looks defiant if it weren't so cliché given her new book, which has that exact defiance in its title. The essay has only been on the market for a few days and has already been widely criticized. Literary critic Elke Heidenreich calls the text a "fleeting, completely superfluous book" and that von Rönne has "failed tremendously".

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