Ever A Novella
Fiction. "Within the psychic architecture that is EVER, Blake Butler explores the way bodies swell and contract, going from skin to house and back again. And the way houses too shrink to fit us first like clothing and then like skin and then tighter still. The result is a strange, visionary ontological dismemberment that takes you well beyond what you'd ever expect"--Brian Evenson. "Blake Butler is a daring invigorator of the literary sentence, and the room-ridden narrator of his debut novella, EVER, nerves her way into a hallucinative ruckus of rousing originality"--Gary Lutz. "In EVER--as in, indicating any time in the past or future--light is entropic; 'the sky could lift your skin off'; domestic rituals are anamorphotic mind fucks granting 'no exit method'; and doors won't open even when you don't try..."--Miranda Mellis.
Reviews
Donald@riversofeurope
Blake Butler edits the literary/whatever blog HTMLGIANT, so I decided to read his book. This novella is sort of like an Ohle novel, sort of. It's pretty gross and awesome. While this is probably not what the author intended, I read it as a narrative by girl growing up in a meth house at the end of the world. The focus is on the house and the body and light and mold. There is a line about her dad mixing chemicals in the closet, and that gave me the meth idea.