This novel about family, grief, and all the ways we remain mysteries to one another is both memorable and brilliant.
“With its fierce wit and insight, Dog on Fire is thrillingly alive to this bewildering moment. "The mystery at the heart of Dog on Fire is compelling, but the real pleasure of the reading experience is Svoboda's punctuated lyricism, sentences and paragraphs that engulf the reader like the dust storm with which the novel begins."-Clifford Garstang, Southern Review of Books Svoboda distinguishes herself with the peculiarity of her prose, which takes a darting, indirect approach that almost attains the abstraction of a tone poem."- Wall Street Journal "If the novel's focus on the warping effects of grief, with only glancing speculation about what precisely is being grieved, makes it typical of contemporary fiction, Ms.
Reminiscent of Percival, Harryette, Ishamel, and Ralph Ellison himself, this is an experimental novel you must read."A lyrical Midwestern gothic."- Publishers Weekly "Part incantation, revelation, and elegy, Rone Shavers' Silverfish offers a surprising New World, Du Boisian source code. Steven Dunn, author of Potted Meat and water & power You're in for a treat, Reader/Elegba/Hermes/Alternate Being." It has also left me with big questions that don't necessarily have answers, but requires an intense process of thought and being, in order to come close to some answers. "Silverfish has left me with big feelings that I need to sit with and explore. More than just a damning indictment of our contemporary moment, Silverfish is fiction written both for and after the end of history. Part prophecy, part literary collage, and part social justice remix, it's a wholly immersive, intertextual sojourn. Silverfish is a syncretic tour-de-force that recombines elements of Afrofuturism, sci-fi, and wartime fiction with linguistic and literary theories to issue a dire warning about what happens when we choose to pretend our past never happened, thereby ensuring that we stumble blindly into a future we've already lived. That's the premise of this experimental novel, a dark Borgesian romp into the labyrinthine depths of language. And in this America, citizens are "born to fail" - mainly because they lack the language and cognitive skills by which to identify their condition.
What if the apocalypse already happened and you just didn't notice? That's one of the central questions of Silverfish, a novel that details a slice of life in the Incorporated States of America: a country much like our own, but one in which the corporatization of culture is so total and complete, so deeply ingrained so long ago that no one can remember an alternative.
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