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Monkey Puzzle Press is proud to announce
Searching for Suzi
by Nancy Stohlman$11.95 - Available for Order at Monkey Puzzle Books and Amazon
For a free preview of Searching for Suzi, click here
from the Midwest Book Review, February 9, 2010:
“The exploitation has to be turned around on itself at some point. "Searching for Suzi" tells the story of Natalie, an ex-stripper who reflects on her life as she returns to Omaha Nebraska where she grew up. Discussing the obsession with appearance and the concept of sexy that ranges from the glamour and stripping industry down to childhood beauty pageants, Searching for Suzi is a fascinating and very highly recommended read.”
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Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, a Collection of Flash Fiction, Volume Three: to be release in June 2010.
'Unlike their less cool cousins -- mix cd's -- a mix tap was an investment of time and attention from the creator, who had to stay present during its creation like a radio dj, cuing each song, trying to avoid too much lag between them. Dancing or singing or laughing along in real time. As each song etched itself onto the tape, you remembered why you loved it and why your future listener was going to love it, a collection of private jokes and memories between you... So enjoy these stories alone or rewing to the beginning of Side A and go along for the full ride. Like those mix tapes of old, take it as a special homemade message from our hearts to yours.'
Nancy Stohlman, from the foreward
click here for Flash Forward Press
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about Searching For Suzi
From Monkey Puzzle Press:
What happens when an ex-stripper in her mid-thirties, married with children, awakens one day questioning what brought her to a current life of complicated domesticity? Compelled to return to Omaha after seventeen years, the narrator we only know as Natalie begins a quest into her past, an adventure that takes the reader from childhood beauty pageants to the sex and glamour industries. Natalie’s search becomes an intrepid journey through her own sexuality, a woman not only claiming herself but also accepting her contradictions. With inquisitive perception and agile use of perspective, Searching for Suzi is an investigation into the tragic shadows of a past preferred to be forgotten.
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“Sexy, gutsy, raw and mature. A literary strip tease, Nancy Stohlman lures us through the layers of her dark world with the promise of exposing the ultimate sparkle…and ends up revealing something profound.”
- Raymond Federman (Double or Nothing)“Searching for Suzi offers syntax of desire itself – the complex, difficult, and beautiful ways we rupture into and beyond our own ghost-versions inside the mystery of hello and good-bye. Nancy Stohlman has written a spare, searing, and stunning book. It will wake you in the way that only necessary art can do.”
- Selah Saterstrom (The Meat and Spirit Plan)
“In cheap pulp fiction, a stripper is either the helpless victim of sexual exploitation or the gutsy woman who makes the system work for her. Searching for Suzi is not pulp fiction. Nancy Stohlman smartly complicates the stereotypes with this story of a woman looking back on her life from a scrutinizing distance, separating the romantic images from the real and transforming the latter, through the art of storytelling, into something intimate and compelling.”
- Danielle Dutton (Attempts at a Life)
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