The Book of Kane and Margaret: A Novel - Softcover

Araki-Kawaguchi, Kiik

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9781573661843: The Book of Kane and Margaret: A Novel

Synopsis

WINNER OF FC2’S RONALD SUKENICK INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE
 
A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona
 
Kane Araki and Margaret Morri are not only the names of teenage lovers living in a World War II Japanese relocation camp. Kane Araki is also the name of a man who, mysteriously, sprouts a pair of black raven’s wings overnight. Margaret Morri is the name of the aging healer who treats embarrassing conditions (smelly feet and excessive flatulence). It’s also the name of an eleven-year-old girl who communes with the devil, trading human teeth for divine wishes.
 
In The Book of Kane and Margaret, dozens of Kane Arakis and Margaret Morris populate the Canal and Butte camp divisions in Gila River. Amidst their daily rituals and family dramas, they find ways to stage quiet revolutions against a domestic colonial experience. Some internees slip through barbed wire fences to meet for love affairs. Others attempt to smuggle whiskey, pornography, birds, dogs, horses, and unearthly insects into their family barracks. And another seeks a way to submerge the internment camp in Pacific seawater.

 

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About the Author

Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi writes dreampop speculative fictions and darkwaveminimalist poetry that can be enjoyed on a bus ride or in line forcoffee. All his best stories have something to do with talking insects.His best poems are X-Men fan fiction. He is the author of DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY (1913 Press) and THE BOOK OF KANE AND MARGARET (Fiction Collective Two / The University of Alabama Press).

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