{"product_id":"o-fallen-angel-isbn-9780062572684","title":"O Fallen Angel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Delirious, uncanny, the tragedy is ecstatic, each sentence pushes you to the next, each chapter to the following. This is the page-turner of experimental work.” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A brilliant, hilarious debut.” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Chris Kraus, author of \u003cem\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe haunting debut novel that put Kate Zambreno on the map, \u003cem\u003eO Fallen Angel\u003c\/em\u003e, is a provocative, voice-driven story of a family in crisis—and, more broadly, the crisis of the American family—now repackaged and with a new introduction by Lidia Yuknavitch.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by Francis Bacon's \u003cem\u003eThree Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion\u003c\/em\u003e, Kate Zambreno's brilliant novel is a triptych of modern-day America set in a banal Midwestern landscape, told from three distinct, unforgettable points of view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is \"Mommy,\" a portrait of housewife psychosis, fenced in by her own small mind. There is \"Maggie,\" Mommy's unfortunate daughter whom she infects with fairytales. Then there is the mysterious martyr-figure Malachi, a Cassandra in army fatigues, the Septimus Smith to Mommy's Mrs. Dalloway, who stands at the foot of the highway holding signs of fervent prophecy, gaping at the bottomless abyss of the human condition, while SUVs scream past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply poignant, sometimes hilarious, and other times horrifying, \u003cem\u003eO Fallen Angel \u003c\/em\u003eis satire at its best. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Embracing the didactic language of parable while turning it on its head, Zambreno’s punchy, matter-of-fact, repetitive sentences belie repressed emotional truths… The effect is a poetic visit to Middle America, one that’s more likely to expose hypocrisies than generate empathy.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post, Book of the Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Delirious, uncanny, the tragedy is ecstatic, each sentence pushes you to the next, each chapter to the following. This is the page-turner of experimental work.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book is visceral and astonishing–there are not many writers like Zambreno out there.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookriot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reading Kate Zambreno’s first novel… is like getting a dose of electroshock therapy–a galvanizing current of electricity straight into the brain... \u003ci\u003eO Fallen Angel\u003c\/i\u003eis blackly funny and brutal, a radical and clear-sighted antidote for banality and complacency. ” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStaff Picks, Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“... the timing of \u003ci\u003eO Fallen Angel\u003c\/i\u003e’s re-release fuckedly transitions it from Sad Girl Cult Classic to Great American Novel in \u003ci\u003eécriture féminine\u003c\/i\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSam Cohen, Weird Sister\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“But for all its dank humor and brutal dissection of the nuclear family, \u003ci\u003eO Fallen Angel\u003c\/i\u003e is also a philosophical novel, deeply concerned with the problem of freedom.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In Zambreno’s vision, Trumpism is a disease that’s intertwined with a quintessential American illness, both mental and physical, and a denial of corporeal reality–sex and death in particular–at its root. (I recommend it thoroughly).” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Zambreno isn’t writing to change your life, and she isn’t writing to revolutionize the plight of women. She is writing to change the way you experience a story. She is writing to hit you in the gut in the very best way.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kate Zambreno goes for the throat. Or, at least, her language does. Her debut novel, O Fallen Angel, (which won the Chiasmus Press ‘Undoing the Novel’ contest) arrives in the grand spirit of Acker, Artaud, Burroughs, but where these are A and A and B, Kate is Z in full: her own, slick, squealy, and of another light.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlake Butler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“O Fallen Angel is absolutely fearless, and, in its way, it is devilishly fun.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Novy, Dossier journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Haunting and visionary, Kate Zambreno’s O Fallen Angel examines the suburban family with ruthless elegance. Here is a novel, done and undone, a brazen mirror reflecting the 21st century.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLily Hoang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kathy Acker would be proud.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaren Finley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“To try and pin a storyline to this novel wouldn’t do it justice. Rather, it exposes the everyday life of most contemporary American families, except that day-to-day activities have been replaced with the semiotic…Linguistically enthralling, this is a novel that will surely make you orbit into the ineffable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s how you feel at your worst moments; it’s less a book than a Molotov cocktail of a story. It will make you think of Acker, sure, but it’s a different angel with a different harp. It’s something only Kate Zambreno could have done, and it’s brave and scared and indispensable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Schaub, Bookslut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Like Angela Carter’s fairy tales, Kate Zambreno’s O Fallen Angel deftly exposes the psychic brutality that lies underneath the smooth glassy surface of parable. Set in Midwestern America in approximately 2006, Zambreno s character\/archetypes a Mommy who names her golden retriever after Scott Peterson’s murdered wife Laci, a daughter who signs her suicide note with a smiley face and a doomed psychotic prophet are all agents and victims of disinformation, but this doesn’t make their pain any less real. In Zambreno s suv-era America, unhappiness doesn’t exist because it can be broken down into treatable diagnostic codes. As she writes, Maggie wants to be free but she also wants to be loved and these are polar instincts, which is why she is bipolar, which is a malady of mood. 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