Ball, Jesse

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Autoportrait

An unconventional memoir that speaks to the power of elusiveness. Recommended.
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Census

Focusing on how to protect our own after we are gone in the face of ignorance, cruelty, and disregard, this work combines a travel adventure with a meditation on human kindness to create a deeply perceptive work of essential truths. Highly recommended for all readers. [See Prepub Alert, 10/9/17.]
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How To Set a Fire and Why

A startling, unsettling, and significantly memorable novel. [See Prepub Alert, 1/25/16.]
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The Lesson

Is Loring crazy, or is Stan, born at the exact moment of Ezra's death, really a child's body housing an adult mind? As with most awkward situations, it doesn't end well. Echoing Phillip K. Dick's The Transmigration of Timothy Archer but with a greater sense of enigmatic suggestion, this work is recommended for those who like questions rather than answers.
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A Cure for Suicide

Here, the bleakness of Kafka's The Trial meets tragedy that is weirdly reminiscent of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, with the burden of self and the possible solutions looming large. An interesting statement about personal ontology and the role of forgetting; highly recommended.
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Silence Once Begun

This multifaceted narration of a seemingly inexplicable miscarriage of justice cloaked as a political statement creates a kind of Brechtian drama; the detached perspective is chilling, though strangely intriguing. [See Prepub Alert, 7/8/13.]
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