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artificial intelligence
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avant-garde literature
bureaucracy
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censorship
creative fiction
creative writing
dumplings
dystopia
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existential theme
experimental fiction
experimental storytelling
experimental writing
faith
FC2
fiction
fiction collective 2
forthcoming
future
human agency
human nature
humanity
identity
imagination
Innovative Fiction Prize
isolation
marimo
Minister of Loneliness
moral depravity
moss ball
novel
poetic license
prose
soul
typewriters
xialongbao
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- ISBN 9781573662185
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2026
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Marimo, Mon Amour, an "accidental" bureaucratic data collapse leads to a swift and silent quarantine. Zinger Zingiber—erased from official records—is furloughed from her part-time roles as a dumpling-maker and asylum specialist. Sequestered in her apartment with only her pet moss ball, Marimo, for company, she reflects on isolation, grief, and the slipperiness of memory, bearing witness to a world suspended in time. Her narration blurs the line between dream and reality as she mourns lost connections, interrogates authority, and clings to the beauty of small, ephemeral moments.
