young protagonist’s emerging awareness of the greater world. But in centering on a 12-year-old as he navigates his family’s decision to adopt a second child, the narrative is shifted to a stage of maturation necessarily antecedent to that of a Bildungsroman, in effect prefiguring its possibility. So, in a way, Family Album depicts more the potential development of the faculties necessary to embark on a coming-of-age narrative, and how that development may be subverted by a kind of parental training that is aimed at implicating and indoctrinating the son into the pathologies of the family. This makes it less a book of revelation, reconciliation, or redemption — as many traditional novels about familial dysfunction are — and more about Matthew’s nascent awareness of himself as the performance ofNote and Bagatellen, the latter for which he served as Editor-In-Chief. Milazzo’s literary criticism has been published in Electronic Book Review, The Dallas Morning News, The Collagist, and HTMLGIANT. His fiction and poetry appears in Drunken Boat, Black Clock, Antennae, Super Arrow, H_NGM_N, kill author, Exits Are, the anthology Dirty : Dirty (Jaded Ibis Press), and elsewhere.

Jason Snyder is the founding editor of Sidebrow Books. His fiction has appeared in New York Tyrant, Sleepingfish, American Letters & Commentary, and Harp & Altar, among other publications. He lives in Portland with his wife and twins. Family Album is his first novel.’

Jordan Okumura currently lives in Sacramento, California where she supports her writing habit working for two trade news publications in the fresh produce industry. She is a graduate of