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    The Lost Daughter Collective
    The Lost Daughter Collective
    The Lost Daughter Collective
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    The Lost Daughter Collective

    By Lindsey Drager

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    Using bedtime stories as cautionary tales, a Wrist Scholar relays the story of a fabled group of fathers coping with dead and missing daughters. When the girl sacrifices everything to send a final message to her father through her art and one lost girl is revealed to be not dead or missing but a daughter who has transitioned into a son, fathers are faced with the reality that their children’s play” is anything but.

    Caught in a strange loop thatlike Escher’s Drawing Hands”confuses the line between reality and artifice, folklore and scholarship, far past and near future, The Lost Daughter Collective illustrates how the stories we receive are shaped by those who do the telling.

    A story about the complex relationship between fathers and daughters as well as the ethics of storytelling, The Lost Daughter Collective is a gothic fairy tale fusing the fabulism at work in Donald Barthleme and Ben Marcus with the brevity and language play of Rikki Ducornet and Jenny Offill to raise questions about agency and authorship in our narratives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDzanc Books
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9781945814020
    The Lost Daughter Collective
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    Lindsey Drager

    Lindsey Drager is the author of The Sorrow Proper, winner of the 2016 Binghamton University / John Gardner Fiction Award, and The Lost Daughter Collective, which tied for first in the novella category of the 2017 Shirley Jackson Awards. Originally from Michigan, Drager is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the College of Charleston, where she teaches in the MFA program in fiction. Her work has been published in prominent venues including Web Conjunctions, Gulf Coast, West Branch Wired, Black Warrior Review, Cream City Review, Quarterly West, and Kenyon Review Online.

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