The Bornicus


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In this complex and absorbing work, Joshua Enos explores the nature of story, ritual, truth, and time through the multiple realities of central characters Rebecca Metcalf (a successful or unsuccessful author), Jody Hanna (a logico-mathematical theorist or an undergraduate sound technician), and Loxlornica Howe (the daughter of Hanna and Metcalf, an adopted polymath child prodigy, or the victim of two unusual kidnappings). Through their experiences with the touchstones of love, freedom, memory, and death, they seek out the limits of what can ultimately be known about the world, about each other, and about themselves.




Recording


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For some, it is impossible to remember. For others, impossible to forget. But everyone who hears it is marked by it, forever. For a suburban teenager named Arvydas, it becomes a source of solace after a breakup, but soon leads to confusion and dismay. For rock critic and master procrastinator Raoul Charles, it means a mission fraught with anxiety and doubt. A young novelist encounters it, considering its implications even as she becomes preoccupied with a recent tragedy; The recording is at once a comfort, a call to freedom and reinvention, a dangerous fountain of youth, and a magnetic center of madness and obsession.

























Monasteries of the East


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