I, Tania

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The year is 1975 and a radical far-left group has kidnapped a young woman from one of America's richest families. She will later join their cause and will eventually be arrested and convicted of armed robbery. She will claim it was a "different personality" that robbed the bank. The jury didn't buy it, but author Brian Joseph Davis did. The important difference is: Davis thought her "different personality" was more interesting and deserved her own fake memoir. Welcome to I, Tania, a book that uses the memoir format just enough to spin off into a crazed, bawdy, and seditious charge through pop culture, politics, and the meaning of fiction itself.

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"Rarely have the rules of narrative been more imaginatively ignored." --Slate.com

"In Brian Joseph Davis' new novel, "I, Tania" . . . he does what few have done yet-take the ambiguity of the SLA and Patricia Hearst's embracing (and denial) of revolution and open it up with humour. Scatological, slapstick and Marxist humour at that." -"Eye Weekly"

Author Bio

Brian Joseph Davis is an artist and the author of Portable Altamont. His audio art has been acclaimed by Pitchfork, Salon, and Wired. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.