Say This: Two Novellas

For readers interested in trauma studies, narratives about power in interpersonal relationships, experimental/nonlinear narratives, especially those told from multiple POVs. Editorial comps and influences include Maggie Nelson’s Jane: a Murder and The Red Parts; Susan Steinberg’s Machine; Han Kang’s The White Book and The Vegetarian; and Marguerite Duras’ The Lover. Say This is similarly constructed around ‘missing’ or ambiguous images and foregrounds its formal approaches: white space and compression; elliptical plot and character development, and for some, hybridity of poetry/prose poetry and linear, narrative movement. One novella is a rising and descending abecedarian.
This Wicked Tongue: An A.V. Club Book to Read for June 2019, blurbed by Dawn Raffel, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Jackson, Barbara Gowdy Levine: Considered by many a Canadian Lorrie Moore, lives in Baltimore directs the MA in Writing Program at Johns Hopkins.