{"product_id":"9780983247104","title":"Baby Geisha","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Half ingenuous and half wily, winningly hard to pin down. The result is a kind of everyday fantastic. Dalton nails the Walserian trick of evincing a sincerity nearly indistinguishable from irony. The effect is a poised instability, more uncanny than the magic the stories sometimes describe.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dalton handles her narratives with a deft skill and a keen, distinct, confident voice that never eases up, never ceases to surprise, leaving readers happy to experience her intriguing world up close. Just the way we like it.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[The stories] feel like brilliant sexual fairy tales on drugs. Dalton writes of self-discovery and sex with a knowing humility and humor.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eInterview Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Pura Vida,' about an emotionally unavailable journalist on assignment to cover a sloth clinic in Costa Rica, is a standout, its final moment between woman and sloth arriving with breathtaking lightness, like the first flower of spring. Other memorable outings include trips to the Missouri Ozarks (\"Wet Look\"), the Alps (\"Shrub of Emotion\"), and the Painted Desert (\"Baby Geisha\"), with men and women on the verge of, but never quite reaching, psycho-sexual breakthroughs.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Critic's Pick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eBaby Geisha\u003c\/i\u003e] pokes fun, it's satirical, there's an underlying delicious irony to it, and the telling parts are the ones where Dalton coins names, cuts down trees with her paragraphs, gives us just a touch of the absurd... Dalton's skill as a writer, and above all her expertise in choosing words that play into a darker cultural picture--an offsetting of America's natural high!--are not to be missed here.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eFanzine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaby Geisha \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of thirteen sexually-charged stories that roam from the Coney Island Ferris wheel to the Greek Isles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrue to Trinie Dalton's form, the stories in \u003ci\u003eBaby Geisha \u003c\/i\u003eare distinctly imagined while also representing a more grounded approach in the author's style. There's the Joan Didion-obsessed starving journalist of \"Pura Vida,\" struggling to maintain a relationship with her performance artist sisters (or anyone, for that matter), on assignment in Costa Rica to write an article on sloth-hugging. \"Millennium Chill\" is about a woman who discovers that her body heat is mysteriously linked to that of an elderly beggar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaby Geisha \u003c\/i\u003eserves to support Dalton's reputation as a remarkable stylist and a very original artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017603465456,"sku":"9780983247104","price":11.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983247104_p0.jpg?v=1763887377","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983247104","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}