Dana Spiotta
Stone Arabia, Dana Spiottaâ€™s moving and intrepid third novel, is about family, obsession, memory, and the urge to createâ€”in isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all culture.,In the sibling relationship, â€œthere are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know each other,â€ says Denise Kranis. For her and her brother, Nik, now in their forties, no relationship is more significant. They grew up in Los Angeles in the late seventies and early eighties. Nik was always the artist, always wrote music, always had a band. Now he makes his art in private, obsessively documenting the work, but never testing it in the world. Denise remains Nikâ€™s most passionate and acute audience, sometimes his only audience. She is also her familyâ€™s first defense against the worldâ€™s fragility. Friends die, their motherâ€™s memory and mind unravel, and the news of global catastrophe and individual tragedy haunts Denise. When her daughter, Ada, decides to make a film about Nik, everyoneâ€™s vulnerabilities seem to escalate.,Dana Spiotta has established herself as a â€œsingularly powerful and provocative writerâ€ (The Boston Globe) whose work is fiercely original. Stone Arabiaâ€”riveting, unnerving, and strangely beautifulâ€”reexamines what it means to be an artist and redefines the ties that bind.
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Stone Arabia