August Blue
A Novel

Okay, I'm officially baffled: Acclaimed experimental author Deborah Levy serves us a blue-haired, orphaned protagonist named Elsa (birth name: Anne) who struggles to let it go - is that super funny or super stupid? I'm still not sure (brain freeze). Disney allusions aside, I was intrigued by this st......more

There’s a touch of madness to Levy’s latest. In the opening pages, we meet a disgraced former child prodigy, a pianist, wandering the streets of Athens. We follow her in pursuit of a doppelgänger, hopping around Europe and perhaps reality itself. We have hints that not all is right in the world, tim......more

August Blue by Deborah Levy is a Literary Fiction Story! At the pinnacle of her career, a former child prodigy, Elsa M. Anderson, now a thirty-four-year-old classical piano virtuosos, walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance. Elsa disappear into Europe, roaming from port to port, and soon belie......more

In my twenties, I roomed with a woman who danced in the musical, Cat’s. For six nights and three days a week she gave body and soul to that job, returning home exhausted. During a stunt in which her Cat’s partner hung her upside-down by her ankles, waited for her to latch onto his ankles, and then l......more