{"product_id":"9780986442513","title":"A Book So Red","description":"A Book So Red was the winning manuscript in the 2014 Caketrain Competition, as judged by Peter Markus.\u003cp\u003e###\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A Book So Red's linguistic singularities, formal contractions, and world comprised of the existential non-sequitur coalesce into an astonishing aesthetic teratoid: the vacuum-packed denarration. The narrator's skewed, oblique and painful relationships teach us the only real comedy is the sound of laughter in the dark all the way down.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Lance Olsen, author of Theories of Forgetting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e###\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rachel Levy is a wizard-gory, tender and wickedly funny.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Noy Holland, author of Bird\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e###\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's as if Rachel Levy put the carcass of the novel on the butcher block: choice language cutlets remain.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Sara Levine, author of Treasure Island!!!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e###\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Heartbreaking, horrifying, beautiful and ugly, the narrator of Rachel Levy's A Book So Red explores her world from the inside out with the precision of a mapmaker. From Munich to an American farm to Berlin and through a cast of characters, the one constant is her mirac¬ulous and astonishing voice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Myfanwy Collins, author of The Book of Laney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e###\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rachel Levy, here in what might at first appear to be a pint-sized collection of fractured miniatures, offers us instead heaving-with-feeling fictions that are elliptical and driven by suggestion, though what is most fully and singularly revealed here is a world where much is said-too much, this too might be true-so that what is left unsaid, what the speaker chooses to tell just us-her listeners in this se¬quence of most private tellings-takes on the heft of a bedside confession.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Peter Markus, author of The Fish and the Not Fish\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caketrain Journal and Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49792046203120,"sku":"9780986442513","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986442513","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}