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THE BOOK OF ATLANTIS BLACK
A Memoir
Spare and elegant, relentless and gripping, The Book of Atlantis Black is an absorbing, psychological mystery and proof of sisterly dedication, obsession and love.
Grace Bonner had a sister with certain powers: to charm, confound, inspire, infuriate. Grace, the younger sister by two years, would never be the wild sister, the fucked-up sister, the one who named herself after a fictional island for Grace to return to over and over. Nancy Bonner became Atlantis Black because she knew she was born a myth.
In The Book of Atlantis Black, Grace ravels and unravels and re-ravels the mystery of her sister and what happened in the final months before her disappearance and alleged overdose and death. Armed with access to all of Atlantis' email and social media accounts, Grace attempts to decipher and construct a narrative around the circumstances surrounding her plausible death: frantic and unintelligible notes on Facebook, alarming images of Atlantis with a handgun tucked in the waistband of her pants, Craigslist companionship ads, DEA agent testimony, video surveillance, art film/faux-snuff footage, police reports, and various phone calls and moments-in-the-flesh conjured from memory. Through the construction and deconstruction of these materials and the history only she and Atlantis shared, Grace attempts to understand if her sister's desperation to leave the country and an increasingly dire situation behind proved fruitful or if she died alone in a Mexican motel room wearing a brown Good Karma T-shirt.
What Grace finds is a provocative contradictionjust as her sister proved in lifequestions that lead nowhere or to only more questions, red flags that point in no particular direction, leaving Grace to decide how far she will go to understand a sister she refers to as her canary, ahead of me in the dark.
Grace Bonner is the MFA Program Director of the Writer's Foundry and a Lecturer at St. Joseph's College. She is a former Director of the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center, where she now teaches poetry. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Poetry Daily, The Southampton Review and in other publications. Excerpts from her memoir, The Book of Atlantis Black, have been published in The Brooklyn Quarterly.
Grace Bonner had a sister with certain powers: to charm, confound, inspire, infuriate. Grace, the younger sister by two years, would never be the wild sister, the fucked-up sister, the one who named herself after a fictional island for Grace to return to over and over. Nancy Bonner became Atlantis Black because she knew she was born a myth.
In The Book of Atlantis Black, Grace ravels and unravels and re-ravels the mystery of her sister and what happened in the final months before her disappearance and alleged overdose and death. Armed with access to all of Atlantis' email and social media accounts, Grace attempts to decipher and construct a narrative around the circumstances surrounding her plausible death: frantic and unintelligible notes on Facebook, alarming images of Atlantis with a handgun tucked in the waistband of her pants, Craigslist companionship ads, DEA agent testimony, video surveillance, art film/faux-snuff footage, police reports, and various phone calls and moments-in-the-flesh conjured from memory. Through the construction and deconstruction of these materials and the history only she and Atlantis shared, Grace attempts to understand if her sister's desperation to leave the country and an increasingly dire situation behind proved fruitful or if she died alone in a Mexican motel room wearing a brown Good Karma T-shirt.
What Grace finds is a provocative contradictionjust as her sister proved in lifequestions that lead nowhere or to only more questions, red flags that point in no particular direction, leaving Grace to decide how far she will go to understand a sister she refers to as her canary, ahead of me in the dark.
Grace Bonner is the MFA Program Director of the Writer's Foundry and a Lecturer at St. Joseph's College. She is a former Director of the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center, where she now teaches poetry. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Poetry Daily, The Southampton Review and in other publications. Excerpts from her memoir, The Book of Atlantis Black, have been published in The Brooklyn Quarterly.
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