Description
Set in a semi-fictional, post-industrial American warzone, this novel explores multiple facets related to the recent nonfictional decades of constant civil unrest, with a particular focus on the complicated nature of holding a personal creative life amidst a time of constant violence and change. Despite its heavy themes, the narrative is threaded throughout with veins of absurdist humor that invite and welcome us into the familial warmth of the narrator's memories of friendship.
About the Author
Douglas W. Milliken is the author of two previous novels-To Sleep as Animals and Our Shadows' Voice-the short story collection Blue of the World, and the family history Any Less You. A founding member of the post-jazz chamber septet The Plaster Cramp, Milliken lives in Saco, Maine.
Reviews
Fascinating, strange, and buoyed by a narrative voice that is both somehow floating above the action yet thoroughly grounded in detail . . . there are moments of absolute poetry." -Meghan Gilliss, author of Lungfish
"Milliken asks the reader to exist in an enclosure of his own creation and adroitly shifts our innards through steady, spiraling accretion, until, with quiet elegance, he bares the truth of our own situation that he's primed us for." -Mark Powell, author of Lioness
Book Information
ISBN 9781959000211
Author Douglas W. Milliken
Format Paperback
Page Count 244
Imprint West Virginia University Press
Publisher West Virginia University Press
Weight(grams) 454g