· The following is excerpted from Vanessa Veselka's debut novel, Zazen. Veselka is the author of the novel The Great Offshore Grounds, which won the Oregon Book Awards' Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the National Book Award and the novel Zazen, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex worker, a . · In simplest jacket-copy rendering, Zazen, by Vanessa Veselka and released recently from Cursor/Red Lemonade, is the story of a young woman’s attempt to come to terms with the world around her, even as it seems to fall to pieces itself. The narrator, Della Mylinek, is a twenty-seven-year-old paleontologist-cum-waitress, slinging tofu scrambles in a vegetarian restaurant called Rise Up Singing. Vanessa Veselka is the author of the novel The Great Offshore Grounds, which won the Oregon Book Awards' Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the National Book Award and the novel Zazen, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize/5(50).
By Vanessa Veselka. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. Listen to a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Zazen tackles counterculture hipsters, geology, Buddhism, consumerism, terrorism, veganism, family drama, and. Free download or read online Zazen pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in May 22nd , and was written by Vanessa Veselka. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this fiction, science fiction story are Della, Credence. Veselka makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness." —Publishers Weekly "Veselka honors the complexity of a young, intelligent generation at once confused and overwhelmed, but willing to enact change Zazen is a satiric examination of the real and perceived boundaries of activism and idealism in twenty-first-century.
Free download or read online Zazen pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in May 22nd , and was written by Vanessa Veselka. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. Vaenessa Veselka's Zazen (Red Lemonade) dives bravely into plot, with the author's gymnastics reserved for language that soars and swirls in waves, reminiscent at times of Thomas Pynchon at his most accessible and Tom Robbins at his most fanciful. In Vanessa Veselka’s debut novel Zazen (the first publication from Richard Nash’s Red Lemonade) there are two concurrent wars: one in the parallel America of Veselka’s creation, and one inside the mind of her fervent narrator, Della. That the war inside Della is never fully explained might be a testament to Veselka’s willingness to honor her narrator’s confusion and frustration.
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