Spartanburg Spitfires' goalie and captain Isaac Drake ended last season with an unexpected trip to the playoffs. He's found a home and family with his coach and mentor, Misha Samarin, and he's looking forward to making a serious run for the Kelly Cup. But things take an interesting turn when Isaac's
Empty Set
β Scribed by VerΓ³nica Gerber Bicecci
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Year
- 2017;2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 740 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"Veronica Gerber writes with a luminous intimacy; her novel is clever, vibrant, moving, profoundly original. Reading it made me feel as if the world had been rebuilt." --Francisco Goldman
"From the very beginning, Veronica Gerber set out to write a novel that would end up at a loss for words. She alone could achieve this feat: because she's a visual artist who takes everything she reads in as concentric circles threaded with color, and because she writes essays on painters who write across canvasses and writers who paint plots from the realities of life. . . . She alone could bring the necessary silence to a novel so perfect it ended up leaving me speechless as well." --Jorge F. Hernandez
How do you draw an affair? A family? Can a Venn diagram show the ways overlaps turn into absences, tree rings tell us what happens when mothers leave? Can we fall in love according to the hop skip of an acrostic? Empty Set is a novel of patterns, its young...
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