Fiction. Relying on the alchemy of images, NAHOONKARA opens up an oneiric space of wonder, one that exists both within the natural world and within our own minds, a place outside preconceived notions of reality and identity, a place where we are free to reimagine ourselves. "So many, the risks he takes—and lives to tell the tale—only to take them all over again in prose that is vigorous, funny, and ultimately exhilarating"—Dinah Lenney.

Author City: DAVIS, CA USA

Peter Grandbois is the author of The Gravedigger (Chronicle Books, 2006), a Borders "Original Voices" and Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection, THE ARSENIC LOBSTER: A HYBRID MEMOIR (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009), and NAHOONKARA (Etruscan Press, 2011). His essays and short fiction have appeared in numerous magazines and recently received an honorable mention for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. In addition, his translation of San Juan: Memoir of a City was recently nominated for a PEN Translation award. He is a professor of creative writing and contemporary literature at California State University in Sacramento.