Fiction. The title character of THE REVISIONIST conducts covert surveillance on a city whose inhabitants are subject to uncanny transformations as a result of catastrophic weather, political corruption, invasive technologies and environmental degradation. Hired to spin, or "revise," the facts, the revisionist's perceptions in turn become detached and distorted--inevitably unreliable yet all the same, revealing. This civil scientist of a narrator sardonically observes a distressed landscape inhabited by mutant children, a seeing-eye dog, a centenarian with iguanas and constellations beneath her dress, brooding frigate birds, insurance love clones, a terrorist curator, a private investigator, and a little girl who's discovered the world's largest conch. "THE REVISIONIST is at once a beautifully simple fable and a wonderfully lyrical apocalyptic tale"--Brian Evenson.

Author Hometown: NY USA



Reviews:
http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2007_06_011239.php
http://versemag.blogspot.com/2007/03/new-review-of-miranda-mellis.html
http://www.wnur.org/lit/shows/Fall2007/mirandamellis.php
http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/writersblock/episode.jsp?essid=23683