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- ISBN 9781944866426
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jul 2019
- Publisher: Clash Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In the novel-in-fragments, Burn Fortune, 16-year-old June is a corn-detasseling flag twirler who lives in a small conservative town in the early 90s Midwest.
Her family is dysfunctional but her boyfriend— known only as "My Boyfriend"— has a family who is emotionally and physically abusive. Looking for alternatives to the lives of the women who surround her, June becomes obsessed with the actress Jean Seberg (best known for her starring role in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless) as well as Joan of Arc. After being raped by an acquaintance, June withdraws and begins to live mostly through Seberg's films. Offered these lives as alternatives to her own, June is left to wonder: Can anyone truly transcend their circumstances, or does having a dream mean death— literally and metaphorically?
Brandi Homan holds a PhD in English, Creative Writing (Fiction), from the University of Denver and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of two books of poetry, Hard Reds (2008) and Bobcat Country (2010), from Shearsman Books. Burn Fortune is the winner of the Colorado Book Award. With her husband and daughter, she lives in the suburbs of Denver, where she thinks about the Midwest and misses drinking Yellow no. 5.
