A01=Corinna Vallianatos
Author_Corinna Vallianatos
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- ISBN 9781946724380
- Weight: 192g
- Dimensions: 143 x 217mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2020
- Publisher: Acre Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
