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“The book flinches like a school of fish, a murmuration, a murder nation, my colonizer''s baby handprint on a paneled wall in a farmhouse in Ovid, Michigan. The book unearths burial mounds and flattens them into fields. My ancestors removed the bones, and I removed arrowheads from the creek, and I held them to my heart, and I searched the grass for blood, but all I saw was a starling. She hid her eggs in my chest, and when I drifted to sleep I saw black-winged, nameless shadows.

This is the Book of Lily.”

In Faun, Brandi George explores the sudden erasure of human and nonhuman populations from her hometown of Ovid, Michigan. Embodying various voices, forms, and media, a young girl named Lily undergoes a series of transformations guided by nymphs, flora, and fauna. A reworking of Ovid''s Metamorphoses, Faun also reflects on the themes of sexual violence that often occur in the mythic.

Faun

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    A Paperback / softback by Brandi George

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      Publisher Plays Inverse Press
      Published 12 December 2019
      ISBN-13 9780999724767
      978-0999724767
      ISBN-10 0999724762

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      “The book flinches like a school of fish, a murmuration, a murder nation, my colonizer''s baby handprint on a paneled wall in a farmhouse in Ovid, Michigan. The book unearths burial mounds and flattens them into fields. My ancestors removed the bones, and I removed arrowheads from the creek, and I held them to my heart, and I searched the grass for blood, but all I saw was a starling. She hid her eggs in my chest, and when I drifted to sleep I saw black-winged, nameless shadows.

      This is the Book of Lily.”

      In Faun, Brandi George explores the sudden erasure of human and nonhuman populations from her hometown of Ovid, Michigan. Embodying various voices, forms, and media, a young girl named Lily undergoes a series of transformations guided by nymphs, flora, and fauna. A reworking of Ovid''s Metamorphoses, Faun also reflects on the themes of sexual violence that often occur in the mythic.

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