The Petals of Your Eyes
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The debut novel by an award-winning author of short stories. Kidnapped girls trapped in a remote theater surrounded by mountains and jungle are forced into illegal performances, displayed in cabinets with curiosities, delicate limbs bound by straps, accompanied by dancing puppets fashioned of dead children's bones. "The Petals of Your Eyes" conjures up a painful, poetic world that won't soon be forgotten.Aimee Parksion is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Parkison has received a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize from North American Review. Her first collection, "Woman with Dark Horses," won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, judged by Cris Mazza. Parkison has an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1938603206
ISBN13:9781938603204
Release Date:May 2014
Publisher:Starcherone Books
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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