The Daughter Ship - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor BOO TRUNDLE is a writer, artist, and performer whose work has appeared across various platforms and publications, including The Brooklyn Rail, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and NPR’s The Moth . She has released three albums of original music with Big Deal Records. She lives in New Jersey. The Daughter Ship is her first novel. Klappentext "This irreverent debut delivers a headlong human comedy of trauma and triumph, narrated by the concealed inner selves of a woman on the brink. Katherine, a lost creative soul and the mother of two lovely teenagers with her strapping provider of a husband, has struggled into her forties with compulsive self-harm and intermittent fears of sexual intercourse. This brisk, mesmerizing version of her life is told in alternating short chapters by Truitt, Star, and Smooshed Bug-her inner children, each with their particular strategy for coping with Katherine's past at the hands of a hopeless mother and a terrifying, seductive father. Several of her female ancestors, Confederate widows and their daughters, who've imposed a legacy of racism and damage on her bloodline, also join the telling. The assembled ghosts and contenders for Katherine's ear are gathered in a rusting WWII submarine off the coast of Virginia Beach where her childhood shame unfolded, whether she remembers it or not. The truth of her life is, quite literally, submerged. Will they surface with it? Will they protect her from it, or deliver it to her? This unforgettable chorus of charming selves, battling over Katherine's wellbeing, is unified by their hope for her future, as they collaborate to shape a personal narrative like no other we've experienced in fiction"-- Leseprobe TRUITT   I want to introduce you to my girls. We all live together in a U-boat. Why are we trapped in a German submarine? Because my dad Craig is a World War II buff. We grew up browsing his bookshelves in Virginia Beach. It’s a naval town, home to aircraft carriers and battleships. Fighter jets rip the sky above the dunes. Somewhere underwater, and not too deep, is our submarine, a ghost ship, a wreck, a childhood. Ping . (That’s the sound of the echo sonar, searching for a target.)   I may not be the smartest kid in the submarine, but I’m the loudest and the strongest, and it’s up to me to decide what’s true. The others have their own idea of true—Smooshed Bug, Star. They have their stories.   Smooshed Bug says, “There’s no such thing as true.”   “I know what’s true,” I tell her. “I know what happened.”   “True to you,” she says, “is not the same as true.”   I’ll give you a tour of the Unterseeboot, and that’s the last German word I’ll use. Undersea boat. You know the shape, a cigar. I’ll start up front: powered torpedo room and crew quarters (bunk beds soldered into the hull), officers’ quarters, galley kitchen, radio closet, control room . . . keep coming, follow me through . . . here’s the engine room, and then, at the very back, another torpedo room. Two hundred and twenty feet, bow to stern. We’re starting this very claustrophobic. Everyone lives on top of each other. There’s pressure on every inch of the boat from all that water. Ping .   My dad loved to read about Adolf Hitler, Japan, Italy, all that mess. His bookshelf was full of red and black. He also loved boats, cars, tractors, anything with an engine. He spent most of his free time on his back gazing at the underbelly of a car.   Dad’s garage was a run-down shack, the only structure left when my parents bought the lakefront property. They built an angular, supermod house but left the doorless shack in the house’s shadow with a dirt floor and one broken window, dusty and jagged.   I see myself standing in that dirt in my scouting gear. Khaki shirt, white kneesocks, shorts, and a tidy red scarf. (I’ve earned twenty-five badges, wh...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Boo Trundle
• Editore: Pantheon Schocken Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 27.06.2023
• EAN: 9780593317297
• ISBN: 978-0-593-31729-7
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 217 mm x 28 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi