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The Spectators

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Description

This is what you get when you mix apathy, shamanism, Buddhism, esoteric Yogic traditions, quantum physics, the power of DNA ancestry, and cluelessness with a small band of older women negotiating chaos in New York City in the era just preceding Trump.

Part love letter to NYC's Upper West Side, part an ode to friendship between a writer and her creations (reluctant psychic protagonist Lily Hogue and her loner friends, with guest appearances of real and fictional historical events and people, from Bernie Madoff to Paul Simon to terrorists), The Spectators' cast of characters battles the problems of foreknowing disasters we cannot control and being part of an uncontrollable human herd.

Product Details

PublisherKano Press
Publish DateSeptember 03, 2024
Pages218
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9798989689224
Dimensions9.0 X 6.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.7 pounds
BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction

About the Author

Betsy Robinson writes funny fiction about flawed people. Her novel The Last Will & Testament of Zelda McFigg is winner of Black Lawrence Press's 2013 Big Moose Prize and was published in September 2014. This was followed by the February 2015 publication of her edit of The Trouble with the Truth by Edna Robinson, Betsy's late mother, by Simon & Schuster/Infinite Words. She published revised ebook and paperback editions of her Mid-List Press award-winning first novel, a tragicomedy about falling down the rabbit hole of the U.S. of A. in the 1970s, Plan Z by Leslie Kove, when it went out of print. Her articles have been published in Publishers Weekly, Lithub, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Oh Reader, The Sunlight Press, Prairie Fire, Salvation South, Next Avenue, Lit Mag Roundup and many other publications. Betsy is an editor (former managing editor of Spirituality & Health), fiction writer, journalist, and playwright. www.BetsyRobinson-writer.com

Reviews

"A novel that in the last chapter reaches the only heaven to which I aspire: a life fully awake to this beautiful bleeding Earth"

-David James Duncan, author of Sun House and The Brothers K

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