Synopses & Reviews
In sparse, evocative prose, T Cooper tells the story of four splintered lives: Isak is a "gender freak" to the world at large. Taylor is so simultaneously perfect, yet useless, that she is paralyzed. Her mother Arlene is lonely and pill-popping, while Arlenes brother Charlie faces the unexpectedeven unwantedprospect of being healthy with HIV. Fractured lives in various forms of exile eventually join to re-forge a definition of family from the ashes.
T Cooper received an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. For some time, T doubled as T-Rok, a member of the heart-throbby Backdoor Boys performance troupe. Ts workboth fiction and non-fictionhas appeared in a variety of magazines, journals and anthologies. This is a first novel.
Synopsis
--A Lambda Literary Award finalist
--Selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program
"A wholly original novel that's both discomforting and compelling to read . . . questing characters." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Sharp, funny, evocative." --Village Voice
Some of the Parts is about families--the ones we're born into, and the ones we create. In spare, evocative prose, T Cooper tells a compelling story of four. Long-divorced Arlene is lonely and pill-popping; only after her daughter leaves does she begin to decipher the intricacies of motherhood. Arlene's daughter Taylor is so simultaneously perfect yet useless that she is paralyzed by her inevitable future. Arlene's brother Charlie faces the unexpected--even unwanted--prospect of surviving with a terminal illness, and his best friend Isak is a gender "freak" to the world at large. These four fractured lives collide to re-forge an unlikely definition of family out of their respective exiles.
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Fiction. SOME OF THE PARTS is about families--the ones we're born into, and the ones we create. In spare, evocative prose, T Cooper tells a compelling story of four fractured lives which collide to re-forge an unlikely definition of family. "Sweet and sad and funny, with more mirrors of recognition than a carnival funhouse, SOME OF THE PARTS is a wholly original love story for our wholly original age"--Justin Cronin, author of Mary and O'Neil. "This is a beautiful and important first novel"--Elizabeth Stark, author of Shy Girl. T Cooper received an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University.
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A deliberate literary meditation in a debut novel reminiscent of Michael Cunningham.
About the Author
T Cooper's debut novel Some of the Parts, was a B&N Discover Program selection and a Quality Paperback Book Club pick. Her work has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, the Believer, and The Future Dictionary of America (McSweeney?s Books). Her second novel, Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes is forthcoming from Penguin/Plume. T lives in New York City.