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Fiction Coming Of Age

Disappearing in Reverse

by (author) Allie McFarland

Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2020
Category
Coming of Age, Bisexual, Contemporary Women
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781773851433
    Publish Date
    Sep 2020
    List Price
    $24.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781773851457
    Publish Date
    Sep 2020
    List Price
    $24.99

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Description

Devin died five years ago. She got an infection, lost her arm, and died. How can Devin be in a picture posted online today?

 

This picture of Devin, alive when she should not be alive, triggers of a journey of grief and discovery as the young woman convinced that she caused Devin's death sets out to discover whether Devin may actually be alive, and whether she can be forgiven. Along the way she steals identities, picking up and discarding the people she may or may not be as she struggles with her guilt, and to come to terms with her own bisexuality. As her sense of self unravels, she meets Calgary hippies, a car thief, and an ice cream loving corpse.

 

Disappearing in Reverse is a mystery, a road novel, and a coming of age story. Blending past and present, the self and the other, it crosses genres and defies categorization to be met and addressed on its own terms. Fearless and vulnerable, unabashed and wounded, this is a story of the liminal places where expectations falter and the unexpected thrives.

About the author

Allie McFalrland writes novel(la)s and lives on the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Lekwungen peoples in Victoria, BC. She is the co-founder of The Anti-Languorous Project and her poetry and fiction has appeared in publications across North America.

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Editorial Reviews

Disappearing in Reverse is a triumph of the feminist picaresque. Allie McFarland writes with fearless honesty and relish . . . Highly Recommended.

—Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun

Disappearing in Reverse is a triumph of the feminist picaresque. Allie McFarland writes with fearless honesty and relish . . . Highly Recommended.

 

—Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun

Like loose shale skidding down a mountainside, everything in Allie McFarland’s novel(la) feels like it’s slipping out from under you.

—Jade Wallace, CAROUSEL Magazine