A Mouth of Vowels

This novel visually and narratively lives within the footnotes. The dominant story — of the husband, the abuser — is erased, visually blank apart from a few irruptions that invade the white space above the footnotes.

Trying to establish stability and meaning, a woman gathers and unravels a litany of distances, measurements, checks and balances. Sounds and scents are mixed in a form of post-traumatic synesthesia. Time is collapsed into a basket of humming vowels.

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