| Sleeveless :: Phony Lid Books :: Novel by Joi Brozek |
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Sleeveless is the darkly humorous and provocative story of
Lisha, a sardonic and very twisted teenager living on Long Island
in the late 80s, dealing with the accidental death of her younger
sister of a botched DIY abortion. Alienated from her peers and a
fanatically religious mother, Lisha begins exploring the creative
potential of self-abuse, through what she refers to as skin design.
When her razor art becomes the latest trend at school, it's all she can do to maintain the purity of her original vision and protect the memory of her sister. Employing a variety of styles and shifting tempos to describe Lisha's descent into an inner-world of visceral creativity, Sleeveless is an intensely psychological novel, a stunning debut by this gifted writer.
"This is a terrific book. The structure, the style, all come
together organically to produce a reality/hallucinatory story that
doesn't alternate between the two, but creates its own images and
defies you to differentiate between the two, and leaves you with the
question, is anything real? Damned if I know." | |||||||
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