Story collection
This collection draws on physical and psychological abandoned spaces. Characters contend with what they’ve buried or avoided, and stories enter neglected spaces in their worlds: abandoned hotels, forgotten lighthouses, old summer camps, an overgrown military battery co-opted by college kids. The stories explore injury and recovery as characters try to heal or resist healing: An artist living ‘hyperbolically’ for a project tries to forget her ex-lover, but she’s tattooed her bite marks across her body. A woman in denial of her own self-destruction seeks her estranged sister at an abandoned lighthouse. A bike messenger recovering from a brutal accident moves in with the woman responsible, and begins obsessively re-examining what she sees as her greatest sins.
Novel
This in-progress project, a multi-perspective novel, follows two Jewish women in different time periods, initially set in what was once a Jewish vacation area in upstate New York. The novel leans speculative at times, exploring identity, manifestations of grief, memory’s connection to body and land, and the bonds between people with shared experiences, ultimately contending with the question of how we know who we are, and how the places and people we tie ourselves to challenge and complicate that knowledge.
