Choke Box a Fem-Noir

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milletti, Christina, author.

Series:

Juniper Prize for Fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories, American--21st century.

Detective and mystery stories, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]

Summary:

"When Edward Tamlin disappears while writing his memoir, Jane Tamlin (his wife and the mother of his young children) begins to write a secret, corrective 'counter-memoir' of her own. Calling the book Choke Box, she shares her insights into motherhood, reveals intimate, often irreverent, details about her family and marriage, and rejects--and occasionally celebrates--her suspected role in her husband's disappearance. Choke Box isn't Jane's first book. From her room in the Buffalo Psychiatric Institute, she slowly reveals a hidden history of the ghost authorship that has sabotaged her family and driven her to madness. Her latest work, finally written under her own name, is designed to reclaim her dark and troubled story. Yet even as Jane portrays her life as a wife, mother, and slighted artist with sardonic candor, her every word is underscored by one belief above all others: the complete truth is always a secret. Words cannot set us free. But the stories we tell may help us survive--if they don't kill us first"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Chapter One. The So-Called Butter Knife Affair

Chapter Two. Mnemosyne or Lethe

Chapter Three. The New Normal

Chapter Four. The Assertion

Chapter Five. Composition Axe

Chapter Six. Moving the Lines

Chapter Seven. Equations of Loss

Chapter Eight. The Knife, the Scar, the Rat

Chapter Nine. Gild the Lily

Chapter Ten. The Invisible Nib

Chapter Eleven. Sleeping Dogs Lie

Chapter Twelve. A Rose by Any Other Name

Chapter Thirteen. Peel Back the Choke

Chapter Fourteen. A Language of Limbs

Chapter Fifteen. Second-Strike Phenomenon

Chapter Sixteen. Threats

Chapter Seventeen. The Plot Thickens

Chapter Eighteen. The Agreement of Nouns

Chapter Nineteen. The Problem of My Youth

Chapter Twenty. An Articulation of Flesh

Chapter Twenty-One. Ever-Deepening Shade

Chapter Twenty-Two. That Old Line

Chapter Twenty-Three. Eat This, Not That

Chapter Twenty-Four. Yes

Chapter Twenty-Five. Confession

Chapter Twenty-Six. Trust Your Senses

Coda. A Marcescent Limb

Afterword

Text Credits

Acknowledgments

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781613766743

1613766742

OCLC:

1130719258