O Fallen Angel

<p><strong>Delirious uncanny the tragedy is ecstatic each sentence pushes you to the next each chapter to the following. This is the page-turner of experimental work. </strong><strong>--<em>The Paris Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>A brilliant hilarious debut. </strong><strong>--Chris Kraus author of <em>I Love Dick</em></strong></p><p><strong>The haunting debut novel that put Kate Zambreno on the map <em>O Fallen Angel</em> is a provocative voice-driven story of a family in crisis--and more broadly the crisis of the American family--now repackaged and with a new introduction by Lidia Yuknavitch.</strong></p><p>Inspired by Francis Bacon's <em>Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion</em> Kate Zambreno's brilliant novel is a triptych of modern-day America set in a banal Midwestern landscape told from three distinct unforgettable points of view.</p><p>There is Mommy a portrait of housewife psychosis fenced in by her own small mind. There is Maggie Mommy's unfortunate daughter whom she infects with fairytales. Then there is the mysterious martyr-figure Malachi a Cassandra in army fatigues the Septimus Smith to Mommy's Mrs. Dalloway who stands at the foot of the highway holding signs of fervent prophecy gaping at the bottomless abyss of the human condition while SUVs scream past.</p><p>Deeply poignant sometimes hilarious and other times horrifying <em>O Fallen Angel </em>is satire at its best. </p><br/>