Thirteen Fugues - Softcover

Fink, Jennifer Natalya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098442881X ISBN 13: 9780984428816

Publisher: Dark Coast Press, 2011

Synopsis

Tanya Irene Schwartz narrates her hilarious and conflicting desires through the musical and psychological structure of the fugue. Jewish law, world records, 9/11, Barbies, Viagra, sex, and sisters: these are the surprising sites of Tanya's transformation from girl to woman. These short, intertwined stories explore religion, sex, and school, capturing the cadences and rhythms that mark our journey from adolescence to adulthood. Tanya’s vivid, humorous voice grants us a rare but strangely familiar view of what happens when we almost touch the divine.
 

About this title

Book Description:

Thirteen Fugues is an amazing series of thirteen related stories narrated by Tanya Irene Shwartz, an eccentric 30-year-old Jewish-American woman who entertains a fascination with everything from Jewish law to American pop culture, world records, American flags, older men, and the erotic relationship she has with her sister.

Using the inspiration of the dissonant musical (and psychological) structure of the fugue, this book successfully retrieves the rhythm of passion and confusion that marks adolescence. Each ‘fugue’ centers around a moment of transformation. And to each of these moments, the story adds a grace note: that almost sound just before contact with the divine.
 

 

About the Author:

Jennifer Natalya Fink is the author of V, Burn, and The Mikvah Queen. She is the recipient of the Dana Award for the Novel, Story Magazine’s Short Fiction Award, and the Billy Heekin Foundation Award. Jennifer has received nominations for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. She is a Professor of English at Georgetown University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dark Coast Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 098442881X
• ISBN 13: 9780984428816
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 126