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Some of the PartsBy T Cooper Fiction | Trade Paperback
The novel that's changing the way we define "family." The Osbournes, Sopranos, and Eminem are only "some of the parts" that make up the whole story of the new American family. Click here to see information on A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing edited by T Cooper and Adam Mansbach * More than 10,000 copies sold* Quality Paperback Book Club Selection (Feb. '03) * A Lambda Literary Award finalist * Selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program * Translated into Italian and Turkish Overwhelming Critical acclaim for Some of the Parts: "A wholly original novel that's both discomforting and compelling to read . . . questing characters." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Sharp, funny, evocative . . ." -- Village Voice ". . . A sassy, affectingly earnest first novel." -- Kirkus Reviews "If you detest psychological journeys into wussy family politics, you will still enjoy this book . . . [K]eeps skeptics satisfied." -- L.A. Weekly "A wonderfully weird take on the family unit [that's] worthy of a rock star welcome." --Art Voice (Buffalo, NY) "Best of the year." -- The Advocate "Cooper's scenes have a quirky appeal . . . [S]he deftly captures the seamier motives of her unconventional characters." -- Publishers Weekly "Shine a light on this story and its many facets brilliantly gleam back at you." -- Bust Magazine ". . . a self-assured and relentlessly honest debut." -- Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers ". . . The kind of story Anne Tyler might write if she hung out with transgender freak show artists and HIV-positive gay men." -- Time Out New York "An ambitious . . . charming, [and] affecting debut novel." -- Bitch Magazine "T Cooper [has] set the literary world on fire." -- QSF Magazine ". . . a cast of well-drawn seekers change the parameters of family in this edgy, erotic first novel." -- East Bay Express Some of the Parts is about families -- the ones we're born into, and the ones we create. In spare, evocative prose, T Cooper tells a compelling story of four. Long-divorced Arlene is lonely and pill-popping; only after her daughter leaves does she begin to decipher the intricacies of motherhood. Arlene's daughter Taylor is so simultaneously perfect yet useless, that she is paralyzed by her inevitable future. Arlene's brother Charlie faces the unexpected -- even unwanted -- prospect of surviving with terminal illness, and his best friend Isak is a gender "freak" to the world at large. These four fractured lives collide to re-forge an unlikely definition of family out of their respective exiles. T Cooper received an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. She is a performer and writer whose work has appeared in a variety of journals, magazines, and anthologies. T lives in New York City. For more information visit T-Cooper.com. |
