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    612-822-4611

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Divided Island

Divided Island

Davis, Lizzie
Tarazona, Daniela
Dunn, Kevin Gerry

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1646053141
ISBN13: 9781646053148
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: Apr 23 2024
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.30 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

From the winner of the 2022 Sor Juana Inéeacute;s de la Cruz Prize: a fractal exploration of a woman's grief as she moves through disjointed segments of time.


Divided Island is the story of a woman with a neurological disorder. The day she goes in for the encephalogram that will lead to her diagnosis, she finds herself splitting in two. One of the two women she becomes decides to travel to an island to take her own life; the other remains behind. Scenes and images real and imagined gradually coalesce into the story of a life told from a singular location: a way of perceiving and describing the world, guided by cerebral dysrhythmia. Written in scraps and fragmented chapters, Divided Island is a nonlinear narrative best read as a poetic experience, in which the protagonist's memories and dreams recompose the world and, in doing so, trouble the very notion of the self.

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