<p>Sylvie, a frustrated sculptor-turned-waitress, decides to play an unusual prank: she hangs missing person posters featuring her own face in order to see who might call.  But the prank has results that Sylvie didn't count on--a handsome stranger swoops in to save her from herself and a band of cocky artists and writers takes her under its wing.  Before she knows it, she's literally the poster child for an avant-garde movement that quickly veers out of control.  Meanwhile, Sylvie struggles to come to terms with the death of her college sweetheart: a shy gamer who, struggling to adjust to life after graduation, retreated to an online fantasy world and never returned.\nLampooning both the conservatism of Orange County and the privileged youths who rebel against it, Other Life Forms is a hilarious and deeply moving account of a late bloomer's search for identity, a quirky meditation on what it means to be an artist and a woman when neither mode of being seems sustainable.</p>

Other Life Forms

Glassman, Julia

Dinah Press

<p>These poems are not about the revolutions and uprisings Mai'a Williams witnessed and participated in. They are in response to living them out. They are a record of how intimate a firefight can be. How hope can be more violent than a bomb. They are late night rituals, one of the few constants in a life that has been filled with tear gas and water cannons, knife fights and heartbreaks, babies still wet from birth and martyrs streaked with dried blood, marches and molotov cocktails and my daughter in the living room drawing pictures of unicorns and marching in circles, wearing fairy wings and yelling 'horreya!', 'freedom!' to an imaginary crowd. Mai'a Williams has worked as a writer and human rights worker in Mexico, Egypt, Palestine, and east Africa and Ecuador.</p>

No God but Ghosts

Mai'a Williams

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Other Life Forms

No God but Ghosts