{"product_id":"9781648230394-kind-mirrors-ugly-ghosts","title":"Donato Claire - Kind Mirrors Ugly Ghosts - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: The first major book from a longtime legend in underground literature; known by citation and word of mouth but only now emerging with a work that will earn a broad audience. Kind Mirrors Ugly Ghosts is why I want to read. There are few books at all that expand the exploration of family outsider sex animal love therapy and surreal vision and even fewer writers who do it as well as Claire Donato. My mind and heart are thankfully changed forever. Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu and author of Anything That Moves Kind Mirrors Ugly Ghosts moves and feels like a novel of ideas yes but also a lookbook of Rorshachs; a concept cookbook for famished phantoms; a fragmentary tour de force a la Duras. On every page it lines the mind with vibrant space as extraordinary in its candor about desire artifice and intimacy as it is with wordplay wit and social theory. Death is a mirror of time and life is not as heavy as it seems Donato writes beckoning us forward through the void of realism as might an imaginary friend we thought we d lost or should I say guardian angel ? Blake Butler author \" In Claire Donato's fiction I am both looking in and being looked at. The depths of desire are on display laying bare the complexity and the ugliness that often comes with it.\" Molly SOD a artist \" Claire Donato's prose is at once playful and masterful charming and haunting I loved these short stories with huge imaginations.\" Chelse a Hodson author of Tonight I'm Someone Else \" Love is a source of radical questioning whose only enemy is indifference. Claire Donato's fever dream of a novel goes toe to toe with today's anomie stretching our only resource left language so we can navigate a 21st century landscape of violently changing relationships with one another with the natural world and with our bodies.\" Jamieson Webster psychoanalyst and author In the disquieting stories of Kind Mirrors Ugly Ghosts a fractaled Claire Donato contemplates grief and disgust in heterosexuality deconstructing the romance myth and the illicit fantasies which reflect our haunted selves. These fictions are populated with Lynchian characters draped in memory and the subconscious mind who imagine their way out of the painful limits of their world: a turtle retreats into its shell and becomes a real girl. A porn addict turns into a baby boy in the arms of his barren cyber - girlfriend. And a digitally - marred depressive joins forces with the ghost of Simone Weil to kill a chicken. Donato's fictions are precise and cutting seamlessly integrating a vast knowledge of art through sharp criticism and a history of cult traditions: Donnie Darko Wings of Desire Daisies and Twin Peaks and artists including Clarice Lispector M. F. K. Fisher Sibylle Baier and The Velvet Underground. Kind Mirrors Ugly Ghosts concludes with \" Gravity and Grace the Chicken and the Egg or: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian\" a novella - in - vignettes that frames cooking as an entrypoint to light awareness and connection. With associative lyricism and a preternatural ability to gaze into the void with tenderness Donato relays an indescribably strange perception of our world in which maniacal grief turns to a gleeful protest before becoming against all odds a love letter to what remains. Cover photo: Jimmy De Sana Contact Paper 1980 Vintage C - print the Jimmy De Sana Trust Courtesy of the Jimmy De Sana Trust and P P O W New York\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Kind Mirrors Ugly Ghosts\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Donato Claire\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Powerhouse Books U. S.\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781648230394\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 250 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 11\/7\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Short Stories","brand":"Donato Claire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49622741844273,"sku":"IN-G-9781648230394","price":15.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781648230394.jpg?v=1724729328","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781648230394-kind-mirrors-ugly-ghosts","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}