The Lost Daughter Collective
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The Lost Daughter Collective by Lindsey Drager
Every woman was once a girland every girl was once a daughter
For every woman in the world,
there will always be laughter in slaughter. Midnight at the Institute. Using bedtime stories as cautionary tales, a Wrist Scholar tells his only child of the Lost Daughter Collective: a fabled group of bereaved fathers who meet in an abandoned umbrella factory to mourn the loss of their girls. Over everything hangs the mystery of the Archivist's daughter--neither dead nor missing, but indisputably gone. Blurring the line between reality and artifice, far past and near future, Drager's satirical exploration of gender politics and identity queers the old adage: A son is a son 'til he finds himself a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life. With allusions to Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Peter Pan, The Lost Daughter Collective is a gothic fairy tale fusing the fabulism of Donald Barthleme and Ben Marcus with the language play of Rikki Ducornet and Jenny Offill.
The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), by Lindsey Drager, won the 2016 Binghamton University / John Gardner Fiction Prize. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the College of Charleston, where she teaches in the MFA program in fiction. She is originally from Michigan. Web Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, West Branch Wired, Black Warrior Review, Cream City Review, Quarterly West, and Kenyon Review Online are just a few of the publications that have featured her work.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781941088739 |
| ISBN 10 | 1941088732 |
| Title | The Lost Daughter Collective |
| Author | Lindsey Drager |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dzanc Books |
| Year published | 2017-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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