Unsex Me Here

“A fairy tale, in the classic, sparkling, and powerful ways.” –Michelle Tea

If Aurora Mattia is a switchboard operator, then Unsex Me Here is her call log. Please hold. There’s someone on the other line. A spider, a sibyl, an angel, a mermaid, a goddess, or an ex-girlfriend.

Unsex Me Here is a prayer book tied together by the strings of a corset. Glamorous ramblers, haunted by the sense of another world drawing near, wander in and out of its inexplicable twilight. From a West Texas town with a supernatural past to a stalactite cavern in the birthplace of Aphrodite, from hotel rooms to gardens to the far horizon of a thought, they seek the source of the disturbance in their minds. Heartbreak is not so far from rapture; holy babble is another kind of gossip. Every pilgrimage is as dense with symbolism as it is refined by desire.

Author: Aurora Mattia
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 04/01/2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.11h x 5.43w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781643622705
Language: English