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Sarahland (Hardcover)
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Sarahland (Hardcover)
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List price R588
Loot Price R492
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You Save R96 (16%)
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In SARAHLAND, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores
the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, both
demanding and thrillingly providing for its cast of Sarahs new
origin stories, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting
it, and new possibilities for life itself. In one story, a Jewish
college Sarah passively consents to a form-life in pursuit of an
MRS degree and is swept into a culture of normalized sexual
violence. Another reveals a version of Sarah finding pleasure-and a
new set of problems-by playing dead for a wealthy necrophiliac. A
Buffy-loving Sarah uses fan fiction to work through romantic
obsession. As the collection progresses, Cohen explodes this search
for self, insisting that we have more to resist and repair than our
own personal narratives. Readers witness as the ever-evolving
"Sarah" gets recast: as a bible-era trans woman, an aging lesbian
literally growing roots, a being who transcends the earth as we
know it. While Cohen presents a world that will clearly someday
end, "Sarah" will continue. In each Sarah's refusal to adhere to a
single narrative, she potentially builds a better home for us all,
a place to live that demands no fixity of self, no plague of
consumerism, no bodily compromise, a place called SARAHLAND.
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