Some Secrets Never Die... Priya And Alexandra Have Moved From The City To A Picturesque Countryside Town. What Alex Doesn't Know Is That In Moving, Priya Is Running From Her Past--from A Fraught Relationship With An Old Friend, Prakash, Who Pursued Her For Many Years, Both Online And Off. Time Has Passed, However, And Priya, Confident That Her Ties To Prakash Have Been Successfully Severed, Decides It's Once More Safe To Establish An Online Presence. In No Time, Prakash Discovers Priya Online And Contacts Her. Impulsively, Inexplicably, Priya Invites Him To Visit Her And Alex In The Country, Without Ever Having Come Clean With Alex About Their Relationship--or Its Tumultuous End. Prakash's Sudden Arrival At Their Home Reveals Cracks In Priya And Alex's Relationship And Brings Into Question Priya's True Intentions. Seductive And Tension-filled, Polar Vortex Is A Story Of Secrets, Deceptions, And Revenge. It Asks Readers: Are We Ever Free From Our Pasts? Do We Deserve To Be? Praise For Polar Vortex: How To Know The Shifting Pieces Of Ourselves, How To Acknowledge Contradictory Desires, As We Are Pulled Into The Maelstrom Of Desire And Memory? Shani Mootoo's Intimate New Novel Suspends Us In The Vortex Between Acts Of Betrayal And Acts Of Love. It Is A Powerfully Unsettling Work From A Brilliant Artist. --madeleine Thien, Scotiabank Giller Prize Winning Author Of Do Not Say We Have Nothing The Past Isn't Even Past--and The Present Is Tense With Conflicting Desires And Untold Stories. What Brings Clarity To This Setting Is Shani Mootoo's Limpid Prose, Clean And Bracing. Polar Vortex Is An Honest, But Also Moving, Exploration Of True Intimacy. --amitava Kumar, Author Of Immigrant, Montana
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- LGBTQ+
- Literary Fiction
- LGBTQ+
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Book*hug Press
Author : Mootoo, Shani
Language : English
Published :2020-03-03
Number Of Pages : 288
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1771665645
ISBN-13 : 9781771665643
Item weight : 0.73 lb
Dimensions : 0.79 in x 5.12 in x 7.95 in
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