Marianne Hauser's short fiction is a literary documentary of exile. These accounts of expatriates and lost children situate us in foreign realms, between the titillating intimacies of strangers and looming brutalities we can never quite see. In Hauser's fiction, expatriation is not a historical accident but a condition as essential to humans as breathing or speech. A young boy's suicide in ""Heartlands Beat"" or a child's vision of her piano teacher's corpse invoke the permanent dislocations that adulthood can never overcome. It is as though birth were, for Hauser, the great forced migration, an incomprehensible banishment from some homeland every child can remember. Her characters gaze in bewilderment at the crude and violent landscape that, through preposterous twistings, they have come to occupy, wondering how they could have ended so incongruously, unable to imagine any dwelling but here. Beautiful fabrications from the writer about whom Anais Nin remarked. ""She deftly weaves the strange, the unknown, the unfamiliar, the perverse, into a fabric of human fallibilities that draws drama and farce close to us.

About the Author
Born in Strasbourg, Alsace, Marianne Hauser has lived and worked in such diverse places as Bhavnagar, India; Tallahassee, Florida; Shanghal, China; and Kirksville, Missouri. Her present home is in New York City, where she is retired after her career as writer, teacher and editor. She has published numerous works of fiction, including prince Ishmael (Sun & Moon Press, 1989), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and selected by the New York Times as one of the year's outstanding books. Her other books include Me & My Mom (Sun & Moon Press, 1993). The Memoirs of the Late Mr. Ashley (Sun & Moon Press, 1986) and The Talking Room (Fiction Collective, 1976).


Book Information
ISBN 9781573661188
Author Marianne Hauser
Format Paperback
Page Count 150
Imprint Fiction Collective Two
Publisher The University of Alabama Press
Weight(grams) 400g