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Foam

by Kate Zambreno

A domestic space unsettled

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A domestic space unsettled

Foam brings speculative fiction into conversation with art and domestic life. Its narrator is still in transition and uncertain about what that transition means, while multiple Evas disrupt the household’s equilibrium; the narrator both depends on them and cares for them. The description connects the book’s “speculative art essays and textures” to Eva Hesse and soft sculpture, framing the work around unstable boundaries, precarity, and slippery time. That mix makes the book’s central concerns as much about shifting identity and care as about the strange presences entering the narrator’s home.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction that blends speculative elements with art writing.
  • Readers drawn to stories about transition, care, and disruptions of domestic life.

Themes

Transition and identityCare and dependenceDomestic disruptionArt and soft sculpturePrecarity and unstable time

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Book overview

A strange and speculative text from one of the most innovative writers of their generation.

I am still transitioning, but I am unsure into what.

Who are all these Evas? They puncture and disrupt the domestic space and equilibrium of the narrator, who alternately relies upon them or administers their care. Foam is the latest boundary-blurring, genre-resistant, strange and speculative new fiction from Kate Zambreno, the inimitable and relentless literary stylist and conceptualist. Inspired by the absurdities of Eva Hesse and other soft sculpture, these are speculative art essays and textures, a document of precarity and slippery time--mischievous, moody, estranged--a masterwork of tone and atmosphere.
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