petit cadeau

“This is a night novel, but it is not night.” Embedded in this is everything petit cadeau is, which is, in fact, everything: “Layer upon layer of colored time.” This book is a movie and a science fiction road trip and all of sudden, in comic, cosmic bursts, stand up. It contains parts that may remind you of the inner (gorgeous) monologues and disorientation of Wittgenstein’s Mistress, and the golden observations of Speedboat, while it also reminds me of a future I didn’t yet know and can see now I need. Throughout the book’s filmic moments I heard Mannequin and Her and Under the Skin (in addition to the films it names) and I was delighted to greet split seconds of the familiar in this sexy and preternatural world, created by the one and only Claudia La Rocco. – Amanda Nadelberg, author of Songs from a MountainHow do you find yourself when you’re supposed to be someone else? Our protagonist has only just been made, and already there are problems. Irritations. Etcetera.There are also pleasures. But first, you have to escape.petit cadeau was originally published by The Chocolate Factory theater December 9-12th, 2015, as a live, interdisciplinary edition. The readers were Badlands Unlimited, Patty Chang, Michelle Ellsworth, Kate Enright, Phillip Greenlief, Claudia La Rocco, Rashaun Mitchell, Okwui Okpokwasili, Brian Rogers, Aki Sasamoto, and Davison Scandrett. The novel also exists on the premises of the CF as a print edition of one.