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Chimerica

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Description

In the the fictional country of Chimerica, down-and-out Tamil American trial lawyer Maya Ramesh fights to save a painted lemur come to life, and in settings that range from Oakland, California, to a Malagasy rain forest, becomes a champion for them both. In magical realist tradition Anita Felicelli's sprawling and satiric novel, Chimerica, looks at the inherent absurdities that drive systems of culture, power, and law. Fans of Marquez, Kelly Link, and Helen Oyeyemi will find Chimerica a spirited investigation of the ways in which art is codified and commodified-- a contemporary philosophical, non-ideological novel about art, originality, and Americanculture.

Product Details

PublisherWtaw Press
Publish DateSeptember 05, 2019
Pages296
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781732982017
Dimensions9.1 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches | 0.7 pounds

About the Author

Anita Felicelli is the author of the short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent (Stillhouse Press), which won the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, praised by Porochista Khakpour as a book we needed to read yesterday...a book we will still be reading tomorrow. Anita's fiction has appeared in The Normal School, Joyland, The Rumpus, and her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Slate, SF Chronicle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, and others. She graduated from UC Berkeley and attended UC Berkeley School of Law, and has worked as a litigator in diverse fields, including arts, criminal defense, civil rights, clergy abuse, and construction litigation. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and an alum of Voices of Our Nations, she is a two-time recipient of the Greater Bay Area Journalism award, as well as multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Anita Felicelli was born in South India and grew up in the Bay Area, where she currently lives with her spouse and three children.

Reviews

"Felicelli's remarkable CHIMERICA is a coolly surrealist legal thriller--in turns sly, absurd, emotionally vivid, and satirically incisive--that shifts the reader into a world just adjacent to our own."--Jonathan Letham

"Felicelli blends the matter-of-fact with the mysterious in this utterly unique and compellingly readable debut. CHIMERICA is more than the story of a woman coming into her own power; it's a keen dive into the worlds of law, visual art, and marriage. You really couldn't ask for a novel with better ingredients. Did I mention there's a talking lemur? THERE'S A TALKING LEMUR."--Kelly Luce

​"CHIMERICA is the novel about trial lawyers, talking lemurs, and public art you never knew you needed. Anita Felicelli's charming prose and intriguing characters pull you in and keep you engaged. I'm thankful for this wonderfully odd, yet beautifully accessible novel."--Rajesh Parameswaran, author of I Am an Executioner: Love Stories

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