"...a perfect genius that makes the impossible in expression, possible; the unknowable in experience, knowable" --Anya Achtenberg, author of The Stories of Devil-Girl Nickels follows a biracial girl named "Little Miss So and So", from age 4-1/2 into adulthood.
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It\'s riveting; a book that will capture you from the beginning and carry you through the end.
When this beautifully written and compelling story leaves, you are left wanting more.
I applaud her fortitude to bring an olden--too long ignored-- truth out of the darkness with blazing, innovative light." --MariJo Moore, author of The Diamond Doorknob "In Nickels , Christine Stark , powerfully portrays the story of abuse and its impact on our lives.
Every sentence brings the news." --Patricia Weaver Francisco, author of Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery "To be taken into the mind of a child can be an enchanting adventure, but to be taken into the mind of a child who is abused, confused, and taken for granted is a lingering, livid journey.
Every sentence vibrates with a terrible beauty.
She brings us a wholly original voice in a riveting novel of desperation and love. " Christine Stark has crafted a language and a diction commensurate with the shredding of consciousness that is a consequence of childhood sexual abuse.
Nickels is the groundbreaking debut of Minneapolis-area author and artist Christine Stark .
The story is both heartbreaking and triumphant.
The dissociative states enable the child\'s survival and, ultimately, the adult\'s healing.
Told in a series of prose poems, Nickels\' lyrical and inventive language conveys the dissociative states born of a world formed by persistent and brutal incest and homophobia. "...a perfect genius that makes the impossible in expression, possible; the unknowable in experience, knowable" --Anya Achtenberg, author of The Stories of Devil-Girl Nickels follows a biracial girl named "Little Miss So and So", from age 4-1/2 into adulthood
