About the novel
A woman has been declared dead following a car accident. In a climate of doubt, her teenage daughter suspects other possibilities. As she persists in untangling a web of whispers and rumors about her mother's mysterious disappearance, Cora — a young creative dancer — makes her way out from the perimeter of fear and step by step takes off layers of trauma.
Unsparingly precise about life under oppressive circumstances, the novel explores the strategies of survival in a world of vanishing presences. Intensly poetic with a startling touch of humor, it mitigates loss through the transformative powers of art: found footage, a video piece reminscent of Bill Viola, body work evocative of Merce Cunnigham's quest of form into chaos.
Stela is a novel of uncanny suspense about loss and the forms it takes to carry life farther.
The novel is forthcoming from Ninebark Press in April 2015 and will be launched at AWP in Minneapolis.
A woman has been declared dead following a car accident. In a climate of doubt, her teenage daughter suspects other possibilities. As she persists in untangling a web of whispers and rumors about her mother's mysterious disappearance, Cora — a young creative dancer — makes her way out from the perimeter of fear and step by step takes off layers of trauma.
Unsparingly precise about life under oppressive circumstances, the novel explores the strategies of survival in a world of vanishing presences. Intensly poetic with a startling touch of humor, it mitigates loss through the transformative powers of art: found footage, a video piece reminscent of Bill Viola, body work evocative of Merce Cunnigham's quest of form into chaos.
Stela is a novel of uncanny suspense about loss and the forms it takes to carry life farther.
The novel is forthcoming from Ninebark Press in April 2015 and will be launched at AWP in Minneapolis.
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