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list price: $21.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Oct 2020
ISBN:9780889713888
publisher:
Nightwood Editions
Description
Fake It So Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle—the future of “no future”—and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen look-alike, meets Damian, the enigmatic leader of a punk band. Seven years and two unplanned pregnancies later, Damian abandons Gwen, leaving her to raise their two daughters, Sara and Meg, on her own.
The voices of Gwen, Sara and Meg weave a raw and honest tapestry of family life told from the underbelly, focused on the grey area between right and wrong, the idea that we are all equally culpable and justified in our actions, and the pain and ecstasy that accompany a life lived authentically.
Awards
- Winner, ReLit Award for Novel
Editorial Reviews
“Dorothy’s Rainbow could have arguably been the best punk band, or any band, to ever come out of Victoria, British Columbia...but as the garden city was known for its passive-aggressive nature and no one ever really argued about anything, ‘the Rainbow’ seemed doomed to obscurity. Until now...”
— Tom Holliston, Nomeansno
“Blades’ debut is a gritty, breathtaking portrait of parenthood and the ghosts in every family.”
— Courtney Eathorne, <i>Booklist</i>
“Tender and lacerating. A jolt and a thump. Reading this book is a downright bodily experience.”
— Zoey Leigh Peterson, author of <i>Next Year, For Sure</i>
“This is it. Nobody rocks a sentence like Susan Sanford Blades. Precise and furious at the same time, her writing thrums with the pure energies of sex and music, deep longing and deeper love. This family, these girls and these women, their lives are not like the ones you read about in Alice Munro, but this art is the same: vital, honest and unafraid.”
— Alexander MacLeod, author of <i>Light Lifting</i>
