'I have more privilege than any person in my family. And I'm still
screwed.' From award-winning author Olivia Wenzel comes a
captivating and unsettling literary debut about race, politics,
feminism, motherhood, nationality and enduring love. A young woman
attends a play about the Berlin Wall coming down and is the only
Black person in the audience. She is sitting with her boyfriend by
a bathing lake and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she
witnesses Trump's election victory in a strange hotel room and
later awakes to panicked messages from friends. Engaging in a witty
question and answer with herself, the narrator looks at our rapidly
changing times and tells the story of her family: her mother, who
was a punk in East Germany and never had the freedom she dreamed of
and her absent Angolan father. But in the background of everything
is the memory of her twin brother, who died when they were
nineteen. Emotional and funny, Olivia Wenzel writes about
loneliness and finding joy in life within the roles that society
assigns you. 1000 Coils of Fear is a highly original novel both
powerfully poetic and full of surprises. 'So exuberant, inventive,
brainy, sensitive and hilarious that it's like a pyrotechnic flare
illuminating the whole woman, past and present, radiant, unique, a
voice and a novel to take with us into the future.' FRANCISCO
GOLDMAN, author of Monkey Boy 'Bold and exceptional . . . Her
impressive writing, born of a brilliant mind, surprises -
stylistically, and by its frankness and associations . . . I rode
in the passenger seat, beside the beauty and strangeness of 1000
Coils of Fear.' LYNNE TILLMAN, author of Men and Apparitions and
Mothercare 'An audacious and disturbing novel.' MICHELLE DE
KRETSER, author of Scary Monsters 'An exciting, confident debut.'
Publishers Weekly 'Impressive, relentless, tender.' Faz
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