THE ALBINO ALBUM: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 12070013B60126

English Summary/英文概要： Emerging author Chavisa Woods has been noted for capturing a "strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S." (Go Magazine). Here she presents a technicolored vision of rural adolescence, the story of a girl with an unpronounceable name—a fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu and combat boots who travels along all the bizarre yet familiar byways of human desire from the cornfields of Louisiana and the big brass sound of Mardi Gras to the heights of the Empire State Building. Turning the tradition of the southern gothic novel on its head, Woods presents a new land of contemporary misfits including fire-dancers, pseudo-Nazis who breed albino animals, Catholic workers, horse thieves, and the archangel Gabrielle.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 新星作家查韦斯•伍兹因此擅长捕获“奇特却充满了谜感的美国乡村家庭生活”而为人们所熟知（GO杂志）。本书中她将为我们呈现关于乡村青少年五彩的生活图景，故事中的少女有着一个拗口的名字--这是一名火一般的少女，时而疯癫，时而粗鲁，却拥有着一颗宽容豁达的心，她总是穿着一双脏兮兮的黑色tutu袜，脚踏一双中筒军靴，这双靴子伴随着她踏过了所有离奇古怪抑或熟悉的小道，从人类的欲望到路易斯安那的大片玉米田，从狂欢之城的铜管乐声到帝国大厦的顶层。伍兹大胆的改变了一贯南方哥特式小说的传统，转而为我们呈现了一片当代社会上那些格格不入者的全新生活图景：火舞蹈表演者、饲养白化病动物的伪纳粹、天主教工作者、马贼以及大天使加布里埃尔。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况："伍兹是一名自然派和哲学派作家，她对语言的承诺以及想要启蒙贫民窟人们，对他们普及相关意识、地理、经济以及情感知识的欲望驱使着她不断前进。"-莎拉•舒耳曼, 著有《背叛波西米亚》

“《白化病集》是一部21世纪的童话故事：悬念、扣人心弦、强烈以及救赎。这部完全没有经过加工雕琢的清新小书显然不是为主张社会同化者们所量身打造的。在书中，查韦斯•伍兹向我们呈现的角色们为爱恨情仇而活，对于他们的信仰，他们可以义无反顾，全书文风充满神奇的魔力且形式多变。倘若弗兰妮•奥康纳还在世的话，她一定会为这样一个新声音欢呼喝彩。”-露西•简•布莱德斯，著有《大本钟交响曲》

About the Author/作者介绍： 查韦斯•伍兹，布鲁克林传统派作家及艺术家，2009年度杰罗姆基金奖获奖者。其首部作品集为一部短篇小说集《爱并没有让我温柔》，该作品入围兰姆达文学作品处女作奖。伍兹曾在宾夕法尼亚州惠特尼博物馆、纽约视觉艺术节、纽约嚎叫节以及纽约狂欢节等上诵读并表演。

Chavisa woods is a Brooklyn-based writer and artist, and recipient of the 2009 Jerome Foundation Award for emerging writers. Her debut collection of short stories, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Debut Fiction. Woods has read or performed at The Whitney Museum, Penn State, the New York Vision Festival, the NYC HOWL festival, and the New York Hot Festival.

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Meanwhile, I fell fast and easy for epic new novel THE ALBINO ALBUM (Seven Stories, Feb.) by Chavisa Woods (Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind), a Brooklyn-based writer and artist and recipient of the 2009 Jerome Foundation Award for emerging writers. Devoid of pretense or fear, Woods tells a not so “normal” coming-of-age story set in the stretched-out underbelly of rural America. The lead character, whose name is unpronounceable—later she’s called Mya—accidently feeds her mother to an albino tiger. Her childhood is spent in “white rooms” and the forest, where she’s known as the witch of the woods. In search of home, Mya circles race, sexuality, and class issues. Smart but unworldly, Woods creates a new world for the contemporary misfit where circus performers, Catholic workers, fire jugglers, and power wives sit at the same table. A “gooble gobble” successor, Woods’s edgy sensuality doesn’t second-guess. Her language is clear, her home somewhere and nowhere. http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2013/02/in-the-bookroom/editors-spring-picks-titles-that-have-gotten-us-talking/

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