Anomia
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2024
- Subjects
- General, Magical Realism, Traditional British
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- 9781990293764
- Publish Date
- Jun 2024
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Description
In Euphoria, a small, fictional southern Ontario town that feels displaced in time and space, an affluent but isolated couple have vanished from their suburban home. Their estranged friend, Fir, a local video store employee, is the only person who notices their disappearance. When the police refuse to help, Fir recruits Fain, who moonlights as a security guard, and they set off on a seemingly hopeless search for the lost lovers. Their chance at an answer, if they can ever find it, lies on the wooded edge of Euphoria, where Slip, an elderly trailer park resident, finds a scattering of bones that cannot be identified. Distrusting everyone, Slip undertakes a would-be solitary quest to discover the bones’ identity. Yet secretly, Limn and Mal, two bored, true crime-loving teenagers from the trailer park, are dogging Slip. Determined to bring justice to the dead, Limn and Mal will instead bring the lives of all seven characters into fraught and tangled confrontation.
Beneath the conventionally narrative surface of the text lies an unprecedented effort. Expanding on and modernizing the work of Sphinx by Anne Garréta and Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, and joining gender-confronting contemporaries like Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead and The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi, Anomia is the first novel in English written entirely without reference to sex or gender.
About the author
Jade Wallace’s writing has won the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize and Coastal Shelf’s Funny & Poignant Poetry Contest, placed third in the Ken Belford Poetry Contest, been a finalist for the Wergle Flomp Humour Poetry Prize, and been nominated for The Journey Prize. They are the author of several solo and collaborative chapbooks, the reviews editor for CAROUSEL Magazine, and the co-founder of MA|DE, a collaborative writing entity. Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There is their first book.
Editorial Reviews
"A town out of time, a found community whose softness endures in the face of an uncaring society, and an ethereal and multifaceted love story disguised as mystery, Anomia is a haunting narrative of loss and longing. With mycelial plotting propelled by Jade Wallace’s nuanced and atmospheric prose, Anomia is an astonishing debut."
Michael Melgaard, author of Pallbearing and Not That Kind of Place