Daughter (Jaded Ibis Press) May 2011
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“This is a story about an excavation. This is a story about a daughter and an octopus. But that seems obvious. This is a story about a daughter and the body of a dead octopus in the desert. The body may be that of a dead god, and the daughter intends to shed some light on the situation.”
– excerpt from Daughter
Janice Lee’s lyrical novel, Daughter, was a finalist in the Plonsker Prize sponsored by Lake Forest Press.
Fine art limited edition is an autopsy kit with hand-made surgical tools, casts of octopi, and a hidden compartment with pages of the novel printed on transparent paper laid over a bed of sand.
Soundtrack by Resident Anti-Hero.
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Daughter is quantum. There is a girl, there is an octopus, there is language — in minimal bursts of physical intensities, their magnitude measured in intimate discretes. Janice Lee’s prose is energy transfer of the elementary particles of the matter of language. There is a girl, there is an octopus, there is language, understood at the infinitesimal level. No other book ever written has entered my body and being so physically pure. There is not distance between the state of narrative and the matter of being. I turn the page of her body.
-Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of Real to Reel and The Chronology of Water
“Daughter, the new volume by Janice Lee, seems to rise as intuitive quantum ascent. It is praxis of the marred, of the seemingly uneven. Janice Lee understands that writing can not exist as narrative outcome. In Daughter there is reckoning with the cosmos as phantom, as something which does and does not exist. Energies appear by means of paradox and evaporation. The lineage between Daughter and the oneiric octopus in the desert feeds no time line or approach. Both appear as one. They exchange themselves, and then appear as a-lit in suspension.”
-Will Alexander, Author of Sunrise in Armageddon and The Sri Lankan Loxodrome
“Janice Lee is a genius!”
-Eileen Myles, Author of Inferno and The Importance of Being Iceland
In Daughter, Janice Lee floods the body of a book with the body of a body, all its hybrid, constantly damaging and mending cells. From field to field among the pages we are subject to a brain-damaged, collide-o-scopic file of some internet-age Acker’d Frankenstein having lived to see god die; and yet still must go on walking in the deity’s corpse, inside of which the billion bodies in such image have built our huts of shit and shit inside them. “The sea is a mysterious force, but there is no sea in the desert,” she writes, prodding at the hole left in the fabric on the earth between the homes: another phantom in a field of phantoms who themselves have again died. The result is a meticulous and terrifying resurrection, a glitchy screamtext passed in dire silence to the reader the way blood passes from mother into child.
-Blake Butler, Author of Scorch Atlas and There Is No Year
The word “monster” derives from Latin monstrum, an aberrant occurrence, usually biological, that was taken as a sign that something was wrong within the natural order. (Wikipedia) As Janice Lee proves, the same is true for daughters. Lee’s surgical cadences and sharp fragments work here as writing will work—to force attention to detail. Which is the unnatural order of things.
-Vanessa Place, Author of Dies: A Sentence and La Medusa
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Reviews:
- HTMLGIANT (April 2012): “Two or Three Ways to Resurrect Philip K. Dick” – Review by Maxi Kim of Daughter by Janice Lee & Philip K. Dick: Remembering Firebright by Tessa B. Dick
- Quarterly West (Spring 2012): “Monstrous Language: Janice Lee’s Daughter“ – Review by Anne Royston
- Asian American Literature Fans: Review of Daughter, KEROTAKIS, Red Trees – by Stephen Hong Sohn (Mar 2012)
- Speak Without Interruption: Review of Janice Lee’s novel, Daughter (Jaded Ibis)
- American Book Review (Volume 32, Number 5 July/August 2011): “Dissecting An Octopus” – Lydia Netzer reviews Janice Lee’s Daughter
Current Issue at ABR / Project Muse
- Karen the Small Press Librarian: “Best of the Small Press 2011″ – Recommendation of Daughter by Sueyeun Juliette Lee
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Read Excerpts:
-Action, Yes / Spring 2010
from “Daughter” (Read here)
- Sidebrow / Jan 4 2010
from “Daughter” (Read here)
- Joyland: a hub for short fiction / December 15 2009
“Daughter” (Read here)
- Luvina / Issue 57, December 2009
“La Hija” (Spanish/English) / (Text) / (Pdf of Entire Issue)
- antennae 10
February 2009 (Issue here)
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