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More copies of this ISBN:The Pink Institutionby Selah Saterstrom
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Interweaving visceral, atmospheric prose with historical photographs, images and texts, The Pink Institutiontraces four generations of Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to the modern-day trailer parks that house the youngest generations. As the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines, a new impression of Southern history and heritage emerges. The lyrical gravity and singular style of this unforgettable debut novel will transform the reader in its wake. Selah Saterstrom's writing has appeared in 3rd Bedand Pitkin Review. She is the editor of Soul Collections, a collection of prose and poetry written by at-risk teenagers in North Carolina. Born in Mississippi in 1974, she now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she teaches at Warren Wilson College. Review:Happy families may all be alike, but even unhappy families have started to look pretty similar these days. Then theres the family created in Selah Saterstroms multigenerational bildungsroman about America and the South, and women and men, and madness and whatever desperate things we do in order to, maybe, for a while, survive. Selah Saterstrom has a daring, artful voice. I am confident The Pink Institutionis only the first of many astoundingly beautiful, brutally disturbing works of art.Rebecca Brown Synopsis:Interweaving visceral, atmospheric prose with historical photographs, images and texts, The Pink Institutiontraces four generations of Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to the modern-day trailer parks that house the youngest generations. As the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines, a new impression of Southern history and heritage emerges. The lyrical gravity and singular style of this unforgettable debut novel will transform the reader in its wake. Selah Saterstrom's writing has appeared in 3rd Bedand Pitkin Review. She is the editor of Soul Collections, a collection of prose and poetry written by at-risk teenagers in North Carolina. Born in Mississippi in 1974, she now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she teaches at Warren Wilson College. Synopsis:Beautiful and violent, spare and ominous, this wholly original novel explodes mythologies of Southern femininity.Interweaving visceral, atmospheric prose with historic photographs, images, and texts, The Pink Institutionis a testament to the legacy that war, violence, abuse, and poverty have wrought upon the Deep South. It is also a multigenerational family saga that captures the rich beauty and passionate despair of the land and its inhabitants. As we follow four generations of Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to their modern-day trailer parks, the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines and a new impression of Southern history and heritage emerges. About the AuthorSelah Saterstrom is the author of The Pink Institution, a debut novel praised across the country for "letting gusts of fresh, tart air blow into the old halls of Southern Gothic"(Believer). A Mississippi native, she is currently on the faculty of the University of Denver's Creative Writing Program. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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