The Year Is Sunday

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book The Year Is Sunday by Izzy Oneiric, Xi Draconis Books
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Author: Izzy Oneiric ISBN: 9781732045347
Publisher: Xi Draconis Books Publication: September 25, 2018
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Izzy Oneiric
ISBN: 9781732045347
Publisher: Xi Draconis Books
Publication: September 25, 2018
Imprint:
Language: English

In the spirit of Claudia Rankine and Eula Biss, The Year Is Sunday is a surreal meditation on a matriarch's dementia and the vicissitudes of language, memory, identity, and family. Told through the black-rimmed eyes of an aging goth against the backdrop of an incessant television and broken health care system, The Year Is Sunday explores a family's attempt to maintain normalcy in opposition to death.

The renowned Arielle Greenberg, author of Slice and several other poetry collections, says, "In Izzy Oneiric's capable and unsentimental paws, the experience of family-of-origin weirdness revisited and reviewed upon one's return home in adulthood is transformed into spare gems, little punk-rock pyramid studs along the lapel of a jacket worn by a tough and compassionate survivor. In The Year is Sunday, Oneiric coins the term 'alta vu' for 'eavesdropping on memories that never happened,' and, faced with their (grand)mother's end of life, this is what they document: eavesdropping that leads to fearless questions, choices made and circumstances lived through. 'I want to rescue all of it,' Oneiric writes, and in recording the tiny and uncanny details woven through difficult experience—what's on TV, what was in last night's dream—they do just that."

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In the spirit of Claudia Rankine and Eula Biss, The Year Is Sunday is a surreal meditation on a matriarch's dementia and the vicissitudes of language, memory, identity, and family. Told through the black-rimmed eyes of an aging goth against the backdrop of an incessant television and broken health care system, The Year Is Sunday explores a family's attempt to maintain normalcy in opposition to death.

The renowned Arielle Greenberg, author of Slice and several other poetry collections, says, "In Izzy Oneiric's capable and unsentimental paws, the experience of family-of-origin weirdness revisited and reviewed upon one's return home in adulthood is transformed into spare gems, little punk-rock pyramid studs along the lapel of a jacket worn by a tough and compassionate survivor. In The Year is Sunday, Oneiric coins the term 'alta vu' for 'eavesdropping on memories that never happened,' and, faced with their (grand)mother's end of life, this is what they document: eavesdropping that leads to fearless questions, choices made and circumstances lived through. 'I want to rescue all of it,' Oneiric writes, and in recording the tiny and uncanny details woven through difficult experience—what's on TV, what was in last night's dream—they do just that."

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