Vendor
	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
Original language
English

I BECOME A DELIGHT TO MY ENEMIES

Sara Peters

Dark, cutting, and coursed through with bright flashes of humour, crystalline imagery, and razor-sharp detail, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a gut-wrenchingly powerful, breathtakingly beautiful meditation on the violence and shame inflicted on the female body and psyche.

An experimental fiction, I Become a Delight to My Enemies uses many different voices and forms to tell the stories of the women who live in an uncanny Town, uncovering their experiences of shame, fear, cruelty, and transcendence. Sara Peters combines poetry and short prose vignettes to create a singular, unflinching portrait of a Town in which the lives of girls and women are shaped by the brutality meted upon them and by their acts of defiance and yearning towards places of safety and belonging. Through lucid detail, sparkling imagery and illumination, Peters' individual characters and the collective of The Town leap vividly, fully formed off the page. A hybrid in form, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is an awe-inspiring example of the exquisite force of words to shock and to move, from a writer of exceptional talent and potential.

Sara Peters was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and lives in Toronto. She completed an MFA at Boston University, and was a Stegner fellow at Stanford. Her work has appeared in Slate, The Threepenny Review, and Poetry magazine. Her first book is 1996.

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Book Published 2019-05-01 by Strange Light

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"A hybrid in form, I Become a Delight to My Enemies is an awe-inspiring example of the exquisite force of words to shock and to move, from a writer of exceptional talent and potential." Read more...

"The narrative presents the female body as an open invitation to male sexual violence, undeserving of the protection or respect of the complacent and judgmental Townspeople. Peters' women often exhibit a desire to shed their physical form, sloughing off or cutting away parts of themselves in order to survive. And yet! The horror of much of the book's imagery is tempered by humour, both brilliant and absurd, and a refusal to truck in easy sentiment or pat solutions." Read more...

" I Become a Delight to My Enemies draws on a rich feminist tradition that borrows from both fiction and poetry. (...) Peters's stylistic hybridity invites the reader into gaps and absences; the result is a kind of complicit questioning of narratives that must be unlearned, relearned, and inhabited." Read more...