| Author: | Lisa Locascio | ISBN: | 9780802165701 |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic | Publication: | August 7, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Grove Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lisa Locascio |
| ISBN: | 9780802165701 |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
| Publication: | August 7, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Grove Press |
| Language: | English |
A page-turning journey of psychological intrigue, eroticism, and poignant coming of age, OPEN ME follows a naïve young American during one summer in Denmark in which she becomes embroiled in two romantic relationships—one with her “guide” Soren and one with Geden, a Muslim refugee from the Balkan War
Glowing praise already in from Viet Nguyen and TC Boyle, with promised blurbs imminent from Aimee Bender, Stuart Dybeck, Francine Prose, Darcey Steinke, Emily Fridlund and more
A charged and dangerously compelling exploration of female desire, Locascio depicts the body and sex with raw, dark, psychological power, calling to mind books like BAD BEHAVIOR by Mary Gaitskil, HAUSFRAU by Jill Alexander Essbaum, EILEEN by Otessa Moshfegh, Jennifer Egan’s THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS, THE VEGETARIAN by Han Kang, and the groundbreaking work of Marguerite Duras and Anais Nin
Lisa’s work has been published in The Believer, Salon, n+1, Tin House, Bookforum, American Short Fiction, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is publisher of Joyland Magazine and editor of 7x7 and has previously held editorial positions at the New Yorker and Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Set in Denmark in 2010, the novel examines the xenophobic climate towards refugees and Muslims in Northern Europe in the wake of the 2005 Muhammed Drawings
OPEN ME can be read as a contemporary gothic—it directly draws on the genre’s tropes of isolation, madness, confusion, eroticism, dreams and nightmares, outsiders, and vampirism
Locascio currently teaches at Wesleyan and holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California, and a MFA and BA from NYU
A page-turning journey of psychological intrigue, eroticism, and poignant coming of age, OPEN ME follows a naïve young American during one summer in Denmark in which she becomes embroiled in two romantic relationships—one with her “guide” Soren and one with Geden, a Muslim refugee from the Balkan War
Glowing praise already in from Viet Nguyen and TC Boyle, with promised blurbs imminent from Aimee Bender, Stuart Dybeck, Francine Prose, Darcey Steinke, Emily Fridlund and more
A charged and dangerously compelling exploration of female desire, Locascio depicts the body and sex with raw, dark, psychological power, calling to mind books like BAD BEHAVIOR by Mary Gaitskil, HAUSFRAU by Jill Alexander Essbaum, EILEEN by Otessa Moshfegh, Jennifer Egan’s THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS, THE VEGETARIAN by Han Kang, and the groundbreaking work of Marguerite Duras and Anais Nin
Lisa’s work has been published in The Believer, Salon, n+1, Tin House, Bookforum, American Short Fiction, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is publisher of Joyland Magazine and editor of 7x7 and has previously held editorial positions at the New Yorker and Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Set in Denmark in 2010, the novel examines the xenophobic climate towards refugees and Muslims in Northern Europe in the wake of the 2005 Muhammed Drawings
OPEN ME can be read as a contemporary gothic—it directly draws on the genre’s tropes of isolation, madness, confusion, eroticism, dreams and nightmares, outsiders, and vampirism
Locascio currently teaches at Wesleyan and holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California, and a MFA and BA from NYU
