Lithium for Medea: A Novel

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Introduction by Rick Moody A tale of addiction: to drugs, physical love and dysfunctional family chains. A tale of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. In poetic, sensuous and seemingly simple language, Rose recounts the tortures of growing up with an emotionally crippled, materialistic mother and a father who is slowly killed by gambling and cancer, as she slowly slips into the manipulative arms of a parasitic, cocaine-fed artist and slumlord. This is the long-awaited reprint of Rose's breathless, fierce and visceral flight.

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"Braverman's dialogue is cruelly brilliant, her style a pounding, jumpy staccato of accuracy, fierce and glittering and relentless." - Arkansas Gazette "The prose is vital and original, the characters are haunting, and the structure is rich and subtle... Braverman will be come a major voice." - L.A. Weekly "A great tragedy." - The New York Times

Author Bio

Kate Braverman has published three novels including Palm Latitudes and Wonders of the West, four books of poetry and a collection of stories, one of which one her an O. Henry Award in 1992. Her new book, The Incantation of Frida K., will be available soon from Turnaround. Rick Moody is the award-winning author of Purple America and The Ice Storm - now a major motion picture starring Christina Ricci, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver and Elijah Wood.