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Author:
Lars Horn
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Date:
June 7, 2022
An interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating back injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak. In Horn's adept hands, the collection takes shape as a unified book: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries, and antiquities serve as interludes between longer essays, knitting together a sinuous, wave-like form that flows across the book.
What The Reviewers Say
Rapturous.
As Horn narrates the various experiences and encounters of their life, they construct a world where fluidity between meanings, between the human world and the natural world, between ourselves and other people, and between our conceptions of who we are and who we should be is not seen as dangerous.
Horn’s sometimes profound, sometimes baffling autobiographical essays have in common a near obsession with water, aquatic life, and aquarium.
The complexities of a trans identity and contemplations of aquatic life provide the pulsating current to these ruminative essays.
