Sao Paulo, Brazil: 1954. A monkey, escaping the destruction of its native rain forest, runs into Veronica Segall's living room as she crushes her hand in the kitchen door à la Saint Veronica. A hat, a social climber manufactured in Peru but with pretenses to Paris, watches disapprovingly from his box. A gun, lying in a drawer unoiled and long forgotten, snaps to attention. And a man, an Englishman, one Henry Baxter, engineer, bridge-builder, and melancholic composer of unsent postcards, discovers Veronica and her voice in a coffee shop as he chews an elephant ear pastry. As the story unfolds, monkeys mourn, hats remember, guns regret, and Veronica's voice invades Henry's ears. The voice--perhaps the voice of loss, perhaps the voice of God--itself becomes a character, mourning and desiring every bit as much as the characters it possesses. V is based on a story legendary in the author's family about their mysterious Brazilian relatives and their lives in a post-war Sao Paulo Jewish community. Like most family myths, the story changes every time it is told. In Fink's deft hands, this myth is transformed into a story of the human will to survive, and the equally compelling (and fatally human) impulse toward self-destruction.
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A peculiar--and peculiarly moving--novel. --Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak
With lyrical prose, vivid imagery, and brilliantly drawn characters, Jennifer Natalya Fink takes the reader on an unforgettable journey. --Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Blood on the Border
An intricate and moving work: elegantly conceived, irresistibly written, informed on every page by wit, charm and intelligence. --Carole Maso, author of The Art Lover
With lyrical prose, vivid imagery, and brilliantly drawn characters, Jennifer Natalya Fink takes the reader on an unforgettable journey. --Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Blood on the Border
An intricate and moving work: elegantly conceived, irresistibly written, informed on every page by wit, charm and intelligence. --Carole Maso, author of The Art Lover
About the Author
Jennifer Natalya Fink is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Burn and co-editor of Performing Hybridity. She is a professor at Georgetown University, and the Founder and Gorilla-in-Chief of The Gorilla Press. She lives in a farmhouse in upstate New York.
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