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The Meat and Spirit Plan
Reviews
Publishers Weekly:
“Saterstrom’s coming-of-age narrative is tough and unblinking, and the moments of clarity provide immense satisfaction.”
Kirkus:
“Saterstrom orders [her] paragraphs into a loose narrative framework organized by fragments from heavy-metal bands like Metallica, Anthrax and Judas Priest. Perhaps an even more basic unit of structural organization found here is the image, for image patterns (of Ginger Rogers, of butchering, of The Seventh Seal, of The Blue Lagoon) weave through both the reality and the dreams of the narrator. . . . [who] observes that one of the characters ‘uses language like an exacto blade’—the same can be said of Saterstrom.”
Lisa Guidarini, Bluestalking Reader:
“Fans of southern literature, edgy, new writing and just plain GOOD writing would be well advised to keep an eye out for this book.”
Katherine Dunn:
“The Meat and Spirit Plan is ferocious and dazzling, the work of a savage poet. Every scene is a hard polished gem of raunch and revelation. Strung together they build a force of piercing tenderness. It’s an impressive achievement, and a real pleasure to read.”
Rikki Ducornet:
“The Meat and Spirit Plan is simultaneously unspeakably funny and devastating—the way Artaud is funny and devastating. It is also wildly entertaining, exultant, and sublime—its razors tempered with lucency.”
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