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Slab

Selah Saterstrom
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Pages
186
Year
2015
Language
English
Publisher
Coffee House Press

About

On a slab that's all Katrina left of her Mississippi home, Tiger tells her story, and it is as American as Horatio Alger, Schwab's Pharmacy, and a tent revival. She was a stripper, but is she now a performance artist and best-selling author, and it is really Barbara Walters she's narrating this tale to? We're too dazzled to know more than that this is about how a girl ends up in the backwash of decadence and sin and how out of the flotsam and jetsam she might construct a story of herself and the South to carry her to salvation. Serial killers, preachers, and prison flower-arranging classes. Bikers, bad boyfriends, and a stripper who performed as a Trans Am. Tiger has seen it all and as she sits on her slab, identifying anecdotes as they go by, we witness Selah Saterstrom at her greatest-funny, bawdy, and steeped in the landscape and all the devastation it has created and absorbed.

Related Subjects

  • Women
  • Adult Fiction
  • Magical Realism
  • Noir
  • Literary
  • Southern

Reviews

"Brutal but also deeply lyrical, Saterstrom's beautiful novel paints a portrait of a family wracked by its own dysfunction and held fast by a place that has never fully recovered since the day the Civil War began--the day known, as the book tellingly reminds us, as 'Ruination Day.'"
Publishers Weekly
"In her latest novel Selah Saterstrom confirms her status as one of America's premier narrative archaeologists."
Los Angeles Review
"The writing constantly swerves from the sensational to the sincere, which gives it resonance and, ultimately, makes the book so darn likeable. . . . Slab is a definite must-read."
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