Gladman, Renee: Houses of Ravicka

Houses of Ravicka by Renee Gladman (Dorothy a Publishing Project, paperback) Publication Date: November 1, 2017 Publisher Marketing: Fiction. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Ravicka's comptroller, author of "Regulating the Book of Regulations," seems to have lost a house. It is not where it's supposed to be, though an invisible house on the far side of town, which corresponds to the missing house, remains appropriately invisible. Inside the invisible house, a nameless Ravickian considers how she came to the life she is living, and investigates the deep history of Ravicka—that mysterious city-country born of Renee Gladman's philosophical, funny, audacious, extraordinary imagination. "Gladman inverts 1984 in her inventive fourth novel"—Publisher's Weekly"The Ravikian novels exalt the primacy of language to further imaginative possibility, which dominant and oppressive regimes would shut down. Gladman's writing cleaves to the luminous. It slips th