Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Pg. 69: Vanessa Veselka's "Zazen"

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Zazen by Vanessa Veselka.

About the book, from the publisher:
Somewhere in Della’s consumptive, industrial wasteland of a city, a bomb goes off. It is not the first, and will not be the last. Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della’s revolutionary parents welcome the upheaval but are trapped within their own insular beliefs. Her activist restaurant coworkers, who would rather change their identities than the world around them, resume a shallow rebellion of hair-dye, sex parties, and self-absorption. In search of clarity, and unburdened by ideological posturing, Della calls in bomb threats to various locations throughout her city. She relishes the panic and confusion incited by her fabrications. But when real explosions suddenly strike her imagined targets, Della is lured into a catastrophic plot from which there may be no return.
Learn more about the book and author at Vanessa Veselka's blog.

My Book, The Movie: Zazen.

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--Marshal Zeringue