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Revenge of the Scapegoat

4/5 ( ratings)

“Animated with the moxie and wit of Acker and Tillman, Caren Beilin is one of the most bizarre and fearless writers of her generation. Revenge of the Scapegoat is a surreal take on the tendency people have to damage those we claim to love and the way parental cruelty renders the world unrecognizable.” Catherine Lacey

“The author lands on an infectious and perfect blend of cultural criticism, wry writing advice , and magnificently weird storytelling. Beilin’s account of reemergence manages to be both hilarious and deeply moving.” Publishers Weekly, starred review

One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed letters that her father had written to her in her teens, in which he blames her for their family’s crises. Driven by the raw fact of receiving these devastating letters not once but twice in a lifetime, and in a panic of chronic pain brought on by rheumatoid arthritis, Iris escapes to the countryside—or some absurdist version of it. Nazi cows, Picassos used as tampons, and a pair of arthritic feet that speak in the voices of Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet are standard fare in this beguiling novel of odd characters, surprising circumstances, and intuitive leaps, all brought together in profoundly serious ways.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project

Release: April 12, 2022

ISBN: 194898007X

ISBN 13: 9781948980074

Revenge of the Scapegoat

4/5 ( ratings)

“Animated with the moxie and wit of Acker and Tillman, Caren Beilin is one of the most bizarre and fearless writers of her generation. Revenge of the Scapegoat is a surreal take on the tendency people have to damage those we claim to love and the way parental cruelty renders the world unrecognizable.” Catherine Lacey

“The author lands on an infectious and perfect blend of cultural criticism, wry writing advice , and magnificently weird storytelling. Beilin’s account of reemergence manages to be both hilarious and deeply moving.” Publishers Weekly, starred review

One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed letters that her father had written to her in her teens, in which he blames her for their family’s crises. Driven by the raw fact of receiving these devastating letters not once but twice in a lifetime, and in a panic of chronic pain brought on by rheumatoid arthritis, Iris escapes to the countryside—or some absurdist version of it. Nazi cows, Picassos used as tampons, and a pair of arthritic feet that speak in the voices of Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet are standard fare in this beguiling novel of odd characters, surprising circumstances, and intuitive leaps, all brought together in profoundly serious ways.

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project

Release: April 12, 2022

ISBN: 194898007X

ISBN 13: 9781948980074

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