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"Descent is a modern fairy tale, revealing the raw vulnerability and unseen strength of forging an authentic life from within an unconventional body. Its edges draw tender shapes often made invisible by modern society. Within it, the reader is invited to become an observer to isolation, violation and the magic of secret joy. Each page weaves a spell of protection around those whose bodies do not conform-who commit radical acts of rebellion and creativity simply by daring to exist as their natural selves. Its prose evokes entangled connections and ever-dissolving boundaries between humanity and the natural world. In this 2022 Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Prize winning story, Arria Deepwater brings an eco-feminist speculative twist to the growing canon of writers with marginalized identities authoring stories in their own voices. Those living within the experience of disabilities, chronic illness, hyper-medicalization, objectification and LGBTQ+ lives may find some of their truths mirrored back with dark humor, despair, and a joyful defiance Descent pulses between intimacy and distance, fluidity and fixed reality, truth and voicelessness. What does it mean to be real, whole and a part of something wild? And what does it take to live that fully-in freedom and safety?"-- Provided by publisher.
About the author
Arria Deepwater is a writer and spiritual practitioner living in the unceded Omàmiwinini territory known as Ontario, Canada.
