The Immigrant’s Handbook
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[quote style=”boxed”]Taut and terrifying, The Immigrant’s Handbook gives us our deadened times reflected back at us. D.O. Dodd is a master of the anti-historical novel.” —Hal Niedzviecki, author and editor of Broken Pencil[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]A compelling work of chaotic, marvelously misaligned energy, this is the immigrant’s nightmare like it has never been told before – from the inside. Dodd writes like an assault weapon aimed at your head.” —Mark Frutkin, author, Fabrizio’s Return[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]An astonishing work marked by its stark and stripped stylistic attack… Few manage to make volumes where structure and content echo each other exponentially, shaping a third work of sorts.” —Globe and Mail[/quote]
[quote style=”boxed”]Dodd paints a culture obsessed with horror as spectacle. This motif may not be shockingly new to many readers, as writers have been grappling with our voyeuristic culture since at least the early ’90s, but Dodd’s rendering is unique.. S/he forces the reader to confront her/his own compliance in this very contemporary, very cyclical culture of abuse and entertainment.” —Matrix[/quote]
Delivering a fast-paced, existential whirlwind, this novel follows a woman who arrives in an unfamiliar country with high hopes for a new life, only to suffer a tremendous loss. Her story is compassionately told, with a unique narrative deftly portraying her struggles to triumph against the many odds immigrants commonly face. The author takes great aesthetic risks, employing surrealism and compelling symbolism that make the aspects of frailty, hope, disillusionment, violence, and confusion adroitly rendered with empathy and wit. Indisputably thought-provoking, this book sheds a relentless light on the myriad ways social justice affects those seeking asylum.
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