The Ladies
By Sara Veglahn
2017
First Published
3.83
Average Rating
138
Number of Pages
Fiction. In The Ladies, a trio of professional mourners contemplates their fate, while their days are consumed by the various rituals of grief and an intense hunger that never seems to be sated. The chorus-like quality of the narrative offers the haunting element of the mythological, where past and present merge and become nearly indistinguishable. In dream-like, crystalline prose, this novel interrogates the complexity of existence, of mourning, of identity, of origins.
Avg Rating
3.83
Number of Ratings
23
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author
Sara Veglahn
Author · 4 books
Sara Veglahn was born and raised in the American Midwest. Her novel, The Mayflies, was recently published by Dzanc in May 2014. An excerpt from her novel, The Ladies, was recently published as a chapbook by New Herring Press. She is also the author of three other chapbooks: Closed Histories (Noemi Press, 2008); Falling Forward (Braincase Press, 2003); and Another Random Heart, recently republished by Letter Machine Editions (2009). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Caketrain, Conjunctions, Sleepingfish, Octopus, Fence, 26, Trickhouse, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in writing from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a PhD in literature and writing from the University of Denver. She currently lives in Denver.
