Hungry Ghost Theater

Sarah Stone

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Finalist for the Northern California Book Award, Hungry Ghost Theater: A Novel is an inventive, funny, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between art and hunger, duty and desire, and loss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company, while their sister Eva, a neuroscientist, searches for the biological roots of empathy. The adventures of the eccentric Zamarin family take the reader from San Francisco to Seoul and into and through a series of Sumerian and Tibetan hells. This imaginative, provocative novel is a contemporary Inferno for fans of Margaret Atwood, Ruth Ozeki, and Lydia Millet.

Book Details

Publisher: Wtaw Press
Publish Date: Oct 10th, 2018
Pages: 316
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.90in - 1.00lb
EAN: 9780998801452
Categories: • Family Life - General• Literary• Psychological

About the Author

Stone, Sarah: - Sarah Stone's novel The True Sources of the Nile has been taught in courses on literature, ethics, and the rhetoric of human rights. It was a BookSense 76 selection, has been translated into German and Dutch, and was included in Geoff Wisner's A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books That Capture the Spirit of Africa. She's the co-author, with her spouse and writing partner Ron Nyren, of the textbook Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares; StoryQuarterly; The Believer; The Millions; The Writer's Chronicle; Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope; and A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft, among other places. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Praise for this book

"With her laser intelligence and gorgeous prose style, Sarah Stone has written a thrilling hybrid of a novel about the intricacies of family life and the inevitable handing down from one generation to the next of our deepest passions and pathologies. Set around the world--and in the next one--this book is both marvelously inventive and deeply humane. I loved it." --Ann Packer, author of The Children's Crusade

"Sarah Stone traces out the quirky, fateful dramas of one family, while having the visionary originality to take the longest possible view of human action. I found this an unforgettable book, astute, vivid, and stubbornly ambitious in its scope." --Joan Silber

"Sarah Stone's Hungry Ghost Theater is about the roles we unintentionally or obligingly play in the drama of life. It's about the families we're born into and the families we try to create with (seemingly) like-minded people. It's the kind of book I love most: a novel of integrity and intelligence and artfulness, rendered in prose so beautiful that at times it breaks your heart."-- Vendela Vida, author of The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

"Mythical, magical, and wonderfully original, this fractured family portrait artfully fuses the personal and the political, life and art, the worlds we see and those hidden from us. Sarah Stone is a writer of great power and unusual vision." -- Andrea Barrett, author of Archangel

"In Hungry Ghost Theater, Sarah Stone shows us an array of characters and worlds in a tour de force of the imagination. As she leads us through the odyssey of family and the interaction of siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles and parents, Stone shines innumerable prisms on the blurred boundaries between art and life. Her beautiful, even-handed writing conceals sly wit and an eye that is both pitiless and compassionate. By the end of this book you will have traveled to a thousand worlds and discovered that you live in all of them."-- Thaisa Frank, author of Enchantment