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Andrew Zornoza
ISBN: 9780977901913 $13 includes shipping in the U.S. (vs. $14 + $3.99 at Amazon) In the process of constantly disappearing, the unhinged, unmoored and unnamed narrator of Where I Stay travels through a cracked North America, stalked by his own future self and the whispers of a distant love. From Arco, Idaho to Mexico City, he flees along the highways and dirt roads of a landscape filled with characters in transition: squatters, survivalists, prostitutes, drug runners, skinheads, border guards and con-men. Where I Stay is a meditation on desperation, identity, geography, memory, and love—a story about endurance, about the empty spaces in ourselves, about the new possibilities we find only after we have lost everything.
Reviews of Where I Stay "Refreshing, pitch-perfect kind of steering that is innovative not only for the genre it might get called into, but for experiential and language-focused texts of every stripe." "Squarely situated between the ethos of Jack Kerouac and Walker Evans. Where I Stay is a novel of almost pure voice, told in diaristic fragments coupled with photographs whose captions are drawn from other moments in the time of the narrative. . . . a young man moving aimlessly through an America moving violently through him. In and out of cars, of the arms of lovers, looking for someone he lost, for a moment of rest. . . A year passes, days and weeks omitted, blank spaces where the lives of criminals, kind families, abandoned dogs and factory workers continue to be lived. . . . Those who filled his world he can now find "only in the cracks." "As haunting as it is gritty, Where I Stay has the feel of an impressionist watercolor and underscores the value of the small press in literary culture. Indeed, I hesitate to simply call it a book; its ambitions, beautifully realized, make it a hybrid of textual and visual arts." "Zornoza’s prose has range, which is what makes this book at times so beautiful and at other times so devastating. . . . Originality, vision, risks, and experimentation to give you back this country as it is: flawed, fractured, hypocritical, greedy, beautiful, breathtaking, mesmerizing, and the constant dialect of a lie and a truth." Interviews with Andrew Zornoza "Writers have been bending fact and fiction for quite a while. I’m not quite sure where this mania to discover the exact point the ride starts and stops comes from. . . . I’ve spent some time living in a van, sure. Who hasn’t? Living in your car seemed déclassé at one point. Now that we’ve learned that Raymond Carver and Vladimir Nabakov preferred to write while sitting in parked cars, it’s less of a trespass." Excerpts from Where I Stay
About Andrew Zornoza Andrew Zornoza is a visual artist and writer born in Houston, Texas and now residing in Brooklyn. His fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as Sleepingfish, Confrontation, Porcupine Literary Arts, CapGun, Matter Magazine, Gastronomica and H.O.W. He can be found teaching writing at The New School University and fiction at Gotham Writer’s Workshop. Readings & events November 13, 2010: Providence, RI
November 16, 2009: NYC July 1, 2009: Brooklyn, NY June 24, 2009: New York, NY May 30, 2009: New York, NY
May 24, 2009: Brooklyn, NY
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