The Genocide House

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Genocide House by Robert Kloss</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In The Genocide House-the American-maelstrom-The world-delirium-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Villages-slaughtered and burned-Cities eradicated-in atomic flame-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Young women lie-yearning-in valleys-incinerated-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dying men-dream of war-murder-Their-dreams of blood pooling-Their dreams-of bodies-posed-erotic-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Visions of flame-Clouds atomic-rising and swallowing-cities-Television screens-winking and shimmering-visions of flame-clouds-atomic-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Aged women-their recollections-sweltering-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Young men-languid-vile-Licking-devouring-Their humid minds-shimmer with-war-murder-Dreams of blood-pooling-Their bodies-posed-erotic-</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>PRAISE FOR THE GENOCIDE HOUSE</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Book after book Robert Kloss has been excavating the horrors of American history in inventive and fractured prose. The Genocide House is poetic and hallucinatory a visceral novel of visionary power.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>- Babak Lakghomi author of South</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What even is this book? Is this the tale of an American Tiresias? An Orlando? Is this book playing with the legacy of McTeague? Sometimes an alternate history sometimes an exploration of a substructure-American historical fiction is simply and always horror because American history is just a genocidal machine-sometimes an experimental novel that close-reads formal instability and its relationship to Early America and TV's ever-shifting montages. A wind of murder does come to course through this other you that is the disgusting evil at the root of our national identity and as these murderous fucked up Claras run rampant through history you're constantly asked and asking Are you speaking - or am I - </em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>- Johannes Göransson author of Summer</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Robert Kloss is one of the greatest living American writers--unflinching and visionary and utterly unique. In four previous novels Kloss has charted the depths of outrage and suffering and with The Genocide House he has given us a masterpiece that captures the vastness of the American nightmare. This novel is a black and brilliant jewel with each slashing sentence carving facets one darker and sharper than the next. As important a book as will be released this year The Genocide House deserves to stand alongside novels like Pierre Guyoutot's Tomb for 500000 Soliders as a masterwork of brutalty.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>- Kent Wascom author of The Great State of West Florida</em></strong></p>