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  • Published: 15 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9781609804763
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $39.99

The Albino Album

A Novel




Compelling first novel by celebrated emerging author Chavisa Woods with special interest for LGBT and feminist readers.

Emerging author Chavisa Woods has been noted for capturing a "strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S." (Go Magazine). Here she presents a technicolored vision of rural adolescence, the story of a girl with an unpronounceable name—a fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu and combat boots who travels along all the bizarre yet familiar byways of human desire from the cornfields of Louisiana and the big brass sound of Mardi Gras to the heights of the Empire State Building. Turning the tradition of the southern gothic novel on its head, Woods presents a new land of contemporary misfits including fire-dancers, pseudo-Nazis who breed albino animals, Catholic workers, horse thieves, and the archangel Gabrielle.

  • Published: 15 February 2013
  • ISBN: 9781609804763
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $39.99

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Praise for The Albino Album

Praise for Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind:

"What Woods brings to each of her stories is a startlingly acute emotional description of her characters as they grapple with loss, trauma, and identity--whether sleepwalking through their memories, or perched, wide-awake and hawk-eyed, on the outskirts of town." --Go Magazine

"The stories in Woods's new collection experiment with form and genre while addressing fundamental questions of social justice, gracefully merging realism with elements of meta-fiction...a thoughtful and philosophical read." --The Pedestal Magazine

"It is the author's understated, wise beyond her years psychological perceptions that are the binding emulsion of this collection...Only the best narrative writing can provoke as this collection does. This is an extraordinary book. This is well crafted art in the form of effective, dynamic literature."--A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine

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