From a National Book Award nominee comes a smart, subtle, moving story about the complicated business of knowing the people you love (Book Forum).
In Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta explores the inner workings of celebrity, family, and other modern-day mythologies ( Vogue ) ..
When Denise\'s daughter, Ada, decides to make a film about Nik, everyone\'s vulnerabilities escalate.
Denise remains Nik\'s most passionate and acute audience; she is also the crucial support for Nik and for their aging mother, whose dementia seems to threaten her own memory.
Now he makes his art in private, obsessively documenting the work but never testing it in the world.
Nik was always the artist, always wrote music, always had a band.
They grew up in Los Angeles in the late seventies and early eighties.
For Denise and her brother, Nik, now in their forties, no relationship is more significant.
In the sibling relationship, there are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know each other, says Denise Kranis.
From the National Book Award nominated author of Innocents and Others and Wayward , a smart, subtle, moving story about the complicated business of knowing the people you love ( Book Forum ).
Denise remains her brother Nik\'s most passionate audience, but when her daughter decides to make a film about Nik, everyone\'s vulnerabilities escalate.
From a National Book Award nominee comes a smart, subtle, moving story about the complicated business of knowing the people you love (Book Forum)
