A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Here Is a Game
We Could Play is the story of Claudia, an intelligent eccentric
trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in-a place
plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape
from tedium, loneliness, and her obsessive fear of poisoning,
Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her
perfect lover, to whom she addresses letters about her life, all
the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios. In each fantasy,
her lover takes a different form, ranging from a prison guard in a
world where metaphor is forbidden, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel
from the Grimms' fairy tale, to a tentacled mind-reading space
alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia,
even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her
sexual identity-building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the
library, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end
job, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose, the town's new
librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with
Rose, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face
the unresolved trauma in her past-the disappearance of her father
on a night she has long repressed. Funny, dark, inventive, and
moving, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel
recalling the work of Aimee Bender, Angela Carter, Rebecca Brown,
and Margaret Atwood.
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