Desire
By (Author) Lindsay Ahl
Coffee House Press
Coffee House Press
10th August 2004
United States
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
220
Width 152mm, Height 226mm, Spine 17mm
362g
A dense, dreamlike novel. You wake with a sense that your own world has changed because of this foray through the wilds of Africa, New Mexico, and family life.Susann Cokal, author of Mirabilis
In 1975 the price of ivory was on the rise, Bob Dylan released a seminal album, and nine-year old Elena Monroe witnessed a brutal murder in the Kenyan river valley. Sixteen years later, Elena must journey from Albuquerque to Africa before her increasingly unreliable and volatile memories unravel her ties to her mother and cause her to lose the man she loves.
Lindsay Ahl lived in New York, Europe, and Africa before returning to New Mexico. Desire is her debut novela portion of which first appeared in BOMB magazine.
""Desire contains a lusty cinematic intensity, conveying an uneasy tale of sexual liberties and repression as well as the lies we tell our lovers."--Ernesto Quinonez
Lindsay Ahl has lived in New York, Connecticut, Boston, Hong Kong, Sweden, France, and the Republic of Mali. She has worked as a freelance writer, editor, photographer, film producer, and actress. Her fiction has appeared in Global City Review and Murmur and a portion of Desire, Lindsay Ahl's debut novel, appeared in BOMB Magazine. She lives in New Mexico.