twin time
or, how death befell me
$34.57
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
21 September 2007
Summary
A young woman’s fabulist search for her long-lost twin brother overturns all notions of motherhood, magic realism, and miscegenation…. as I poured my father’s ashes into a big Ziploc bag, a little of my blood dripped in. I thought about how each cell has all of you fully inscribed in it, so that if I left those drops in there, it would be as if I were already dead too. I plunged in then, to try and get myself out, but it was all so sticky that I had to give up; when I pulled out my hand, part…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350484 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584350482 |
| Author: | Veronica Gonzalez Peña |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 21 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Critics Review
[A] lush and layered debut…
– Pam Houston * O, The Oprah Magazine *Defying easy categorization, Gonzalez’s debut novel is an often-mesmerizing account of a young woman’s search for the truth about her parents, with absorbing stream-of-consciousness passages that draw the reader into her mind….
* Publisher’s Weekly *I loved the fabric of this book; the rhythm was palpable. The forces swirling in and around the young girl and the estranged and luscious descriptions of nature and mating and storytelling and dreams were told so silently. It was like being in an aquarium looking out somehow.
– Eileen Myles * the Believer *About The Author
Veronica Gonzalez Peña
Veronica Gonzalez Pena is the author of twin time- or, how death befell me, which won the Premio Aztlan Literary Prize in 2007. She is also the founder of rockypoint Press, which produces a series of artist-writer collaborations.
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