The Beforeland

The Beforeland
Corinna Vallianatos
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Paperback
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15 Oct 2020 US
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9781946724380
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In The Beforeland, a boy' s desperate act of rebellion against his grandmother reverberates outward, causing rifts and reckonings in the lives of others: a man fleeing his own troubled family who becomes the grandson' s unwitting accomplice; a poet struggling with the limitations of language and his wife' s distance; the proprietor of a dying motel; and the grandmother herself, who finds love for the first time as she recuperates from her injury. Set in the Mojave Desert and the suburbs of Southern California, this revelatory novel moves swiftly among characters who are caught between the deprivations of the past and the mysteries of the future. With unflinching precision, Vallianatos unearths the vulnerability and volatility at our cores.
"The Beforeland' s effect is to contuse the seemingly firm surfaces of American life and reveal their soft tissue. Vallianatos gives us one of those rare reading experiences where we ready and brace ourselves only to be unexpectedly unnerved. "--Salvador Plascencia, author of The People of Paper "Vallianatos is a genius, a mad one, and this is a wonderful, strange, violent, funny, wise book. Make some space on your bookshelf next to your Joy Williams and your Lucia Berlin. That' s rarefied literary territory, and as The Beforeland shows, Vallianatos belongs there. "--Brock Clarke, author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?
Corinna Vallianatos is the author of the story collection My Escapee. Her stories have appeared in Tin House, McSweeney' s, A Public Space, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She lives in Claremont, California.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781946724380
Published: 15 Oct 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Acre Books
Publisher: Acre Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152

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