Continuum

Spirit House by Patty Flauto, Watercolor/mixed media, © 2008
Spirit House by Patty Flauto, Watercolor/mixed media, © 2008

Continuum
by Nicole Hunter

Publication details to be announced

In this provocative,
disorienting novel about interpersonal dynamics in mental illness, a Midwestern family deals with a series of sudden deaths, psychic plagues, and an underage daughter’s affair with a major league baseball player.
The story is told in snapshot-memories by shifting first-person narrators.

“Instead of walking a character from scene to scene in a story, there had to be some way to just—cut, cut, cut. To jump. From scene to scene. Without losing the reader. To show every aspect of a story, but only the kernel of each aspect. The core moment. Then another core moment. Then, another.
“There had to be some kind of chorus…A kind of glue or mortar that would hold together a mosaic of different moments and details…”
—from Chuck Palahniuk’s Afterword to
Fight Club