The Albino Album - A Novel

Zusatztext “Everything is written beautifully! and there's nothing hiding the cruelty. It makes for an uncomfortable read.”— Ariel Speedwagon ! Velvet Park "Devoid of pretense or fear! Woods tells a not so “normal” coming-of-age story set in the stretched-out underbelly of rural America. Smart but unworldly! Woods creates a new world for the contemporary misfit where circus performers! Catholic workers! fire jugglers! and power wives sit at the same table. A “gooble gobble” successor! Woods’s edgy sensuality doesn’t second-guess. Her language is clear! her home somewhere and nowhere." —2013  Library Journal  Spring Pick "A natural and philosophical writer! Woods is propelled by her commitments to language and desire to illuminate ghettos of consciousness: geographic! economic! and emotional." — Sarah Schulman ! author of Rat Bohemia and Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination "This book will grab you by the throat and not let up for 550 pages and when you’re finished you’ll wish you were back in its jaws."— Lambda Literary  Informationen zum Autor CHAVISA WOODS is a writer and artist based in Brooklyn. Her debut collection of short stories,  Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind , was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Debut Fiction, and in 2009 she was the recipient of a Jerome Foundation Award for emerging writers.  Woods has read or performed at The Whitney Museum, Penn State University, the New York Vision Festival, the NYC HOWL festival, and the New York Hot Festival. Her writing has appeared in the New York Quarterly , the  Evergreen Review ,  Union Station , and the  Brooklyn Rail . Klappentext Emerging author Chavisa Woods has been noted for capturing a "strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S." (Go Magazine). Here she presents a technicolored vision of rural adolescence, the story of a girl with an unpronounceable name-a fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu and combat boots who travels along all the bizarre yet familiar byways of human desire from the cornfields of Louisiana and the big brass sound of Mardi Gras to the heights of the Empire State Building. Turning the tradition of the southern gothic novel on its head, Woods presents a new land of contemporary misfits including fire-dancers, pseudo-Nazis who breed albino animals, Catholic workers, horse thieves, and the archangel Gabrielle. Eye of the Tiger She was a large woman, not like birds. China Lynn, like fine; fine China, fine powder, and like leaving baby girls out on windowsills to die, she’d heard. She’d heard they did that there. She pictured the Chinese baby girls cooing on windowsills with the potted plants while the sun was shining on them till night when the cold took their breath. She was a large woman, not like her birds, and she never would have left a baby girl out on the windowsill to die. Even if she only got one. Oh, if she were only allowed one baby, she would have been pleased if it was a girl. “Eye of the Tiger.” That was the song that was playing and also that was what was reflecting in the mirror as she painted her blue shadow up to her brows: an eye of a tiger printed on the rug that hung on the wall behind her. That big, sparkling velvety tiger perpetually purred at her and her little birds; seven Cockatiels, three Parakeets, and five Lovebirds. One of the Lovebirds had died, leaving an odd number. Even birds mourn. The widow didn’t sing anymore, and China imagined it would go along too, soon enough, but she told it to be strong. “Down a gin and tonic and take a look around you, lady,” she told the bird when it first stopped singing. “Death’s gonna come fast enough as it is without you calling him on with your silence.” China figured Death must be drawn to silence. Deat...

Product details

• Authors: Chavisa Woods
• Publisher: Seven stories press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2013
• EAN: 9781609804763
• ISBN: 978-1-60980-476-3
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 208 mm x 38 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature