Liminal, Jordan Tannahill
Liminal, Jordan Tannahill
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Liminal

Author: Jordan Tannahill

Narrator: Jacob Vanderham

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/24/2018

Synopsis

From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes a masterful and moving novel in the tradition of Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station and Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.At 11:04 a.m. on January 21st, 2017, Jordan opens the door to his mother’s bedroom. As his eyes adjust to the half-light, he finds her lying in bed, eyes closed and mouth agape. In that instant he cannot tell whether she is asleep or dead. The sight of his mother's body, caught between these two possibilities, causes Jordan to plunge headlong into the uncertain depths of consciousness itself.From androids to cannibals to sex clubs, an unforgettable personal odyssey emerges, populated by a cast of sublime outsiders in search for the ever-elusive nature of self. Part ontological thriller, part millennial saga, Liminal is a riotous and moving portrait of a young man in volatile times, a generation caught in suspended animation, and a son’s enduring love for his mother.

About Jordan Tannahill

JORDAN TANNAHILL is an internationally acclaimed playwright who was born in Ottawa and is currently based in London. Two of his plays have won a Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. He has written one previous novel, Liminal, which was published to much acclaim and named one of the best Canadian novels of 2018 by CBC Books. CBC Arts named him as “one of sixty-nine LGBTQ Canadians, living or deceased, who has shaped the country’s history.” He is a regular columnist on CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krista on February 14, 2018

As your body comes into focus, you are suddenly every effigy I have ever seen. Every icon, statue, scarecrow, mummy, rock cairn, fetish, mannequin, every vessel of sacrifice, every voodoo doll riven through with pins. The papier-mâché George Bush I watched set alight at the protest. The flaming G......more

Goodreads review by Butylphenyl on May 28, 2022

Je ne sais jamais quoi dire quand on me demande mon type de romans parce que mon dada, ce sont les romans chelous, dérangeants et s’ils parlent de mort, alors là c’est la cerise sur le gâteau. Bref, impossible de quitter la discussion sans avoir été cataloguée sociopathe - et c’est bien regrettable......more

Goodreads review by Livermere on April 30, 2018

The entire novel takes place within a single second as its protagonist, Jordan, beholds his mother's unconscious body in bed. It operates in the world of autofiction and reminded me a bit of Sheila Heti's or Ben Lerner's work. Part novel, part memoir, part philosophical treatise on the nature of con......more

Goodreads review by Veronica on August 30, 2020

I think best said in the words of Drake in “Furthest Thing”: “somewhere between psychotic and iconic / somewhere between I want it and I got it / somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted / somewhere between a mistress and committed”.......more

Goodreads review by Frédéric on March 24, 2021

Que j'ai adoré ce livre! Ça faisait quelques livres que je lisais en m'en sentant détaché, loin. Avec parfois même l'impression de perdre mon cas. Mais Jordan Tannahill a changé la donne. Le gars entre dans la chambre de sa mère. Il ne sait pas si elle est morte ou si elle dort. Schrödinger et tout......more

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