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Scribner
July 2011
On Sale: July 12, 2011
256 pages ISBN: 1451617968 EAN: 9781451617962 Hardcover
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Fiction
Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta’s moving and intrepid third
novel, is about family, obsession, memory, and the urge to
create—in isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all
culture. In the sibling relationship, “there are no first
impressions, no seductions, no getting to know each other,”
says Denise Kranis. For her and her brother, Nik, now in
their forties, no relationship is more significant. They
grew up in Los Angeles in the late seventies and early
eighties. Nik was always the artist, always wrote music,
always had a band. Now he makes his art in private,
obsessively documenting the work, but never testing it in
the world. Denise remains Nik’s most passionate and acute
audience, sometimes his only audience. She is also her
family’s first defense against the world’s fragility.
Friends die, their mother’s memory and mind unravel, and the
news of global catastrophe and individual tragedy haunts
Denise. When her daughter, Ada, decides to make a film about
Nik, everyone’s vulnerabilities seem to escalate. Dana Spiotta has established herself as a “singularly
powerful and provocative writer” (The Boston Globe) whose
work is fiercely original. Stone Arabia—riveting, unnerving,
and strangely beautiful—reexamines what it means to be an
artist and redefines the ties that bind.
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