Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand

Trade paperback format.  Highly recommended!  The start of a great series, dark and brilliant at the same time.  Finally re-released in a new paperback edition after becoming hard to find. Shirley Jackson Award Winner Believer Book Award finalist generation loss: the loss of quality between subsequent copies of data, such as sound recordings, video, or photographs. Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and hangers on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. But thirty years later she’s adrift, on her way down, and almost out. Then an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Downeast, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and into one final shot at redemption. Reviews “Sharp, clear, and mercilessly lean. N