Daughter! I Forbid Your Recurring Dream!
Author: James Chapman
Desc: Fiction. "Frieda the narrator and eponymous "daughter " opens the novel speaking as a fetus from an Edenic state of unbounded freedom and perception in which she can "create anything"...philosophical brilliance and surreal humor in Chapman's prose amply reward the reader's attention"--Publishers Weekly. "As we trip through Frieda's life and her forays into art love politics self-actualization and self-destruction thematic justice seems to be among the least of Chapman's concerns. It is Chapman's ongoing experiment in his fiction--his exploration of the serious limitations on our ability to communicate in a largely inarticulate culture that has become increasingly obsessed with violence veneer and volume--that weighs most heavily"--Review of Contemporary Fiction.