An anti-war novel that examines responsibility and complicity during conflict.
An anti-war novel that examines responsibility and complicity during conflict.
A depressed writer visits a war zone. He knows it’s a bad idea, but his curiosity and his obsession with having his tax dollars help fund foreign wars draw him there. Amid the fighting, he stumbles upon a small strip of land being reinvented as a feminist, egalitarian, grassroots utopia. As he learns the principles of the collective, he vacillates between a fragile sense of self and the ethics of writing about what he experiences but cannot truly comprehend. Meanwhile, women in his life – from this reinvented society and elsewhere – underscore truths hidden in plain sight.
Real politics and deeply imaginative fables mingle in these pages. This is an antiwar novel like no other, a detailed examination of our complicity in violent global systems and an appreciation of the hope that underlies resistance to them. (By Book*hug Press)
Jacob Wren is a writer, artist and performer from Montreal. His books include Revenge fantasies of the politically disenfranchised, Polyamorous love song, rich and poor, which was a finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and Authenticity is a feeling. He is artistic co-director of PME-ART, an interdisciplinary group.
