{"product_id":"she-is-here","title":"She Is Here","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWidely acclaimed as a novelist, here Nicola Griffith displays her power, precision, and clarity of thought in multiple modes and forms.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for her gorgeously supple prose that soars effortlessly over genre boundaries, Griffith is also an incisive essayist whose ground-breaking, data-driven work on gender bias in the literary ecosystem sparked self-searching conversations worldwide. In this heady mélange of essays, poems, art, and stories—some seen here for the first time—the author makes foundational assertions about love versus ownership (“Wife”), advocates for the writer as explorer (“Branding: It Burns”), and points out the gaping hole in our literary landscape where we’d expect to find disability fiction (“Overwriting the Old Story”). These and other public-facing essays are followed by four powerfully intimate poems. Returning to prose, Griffith immerses us so seamlessly in her viscerally imagined fiction that we feel how it is to be hurled like light through the stars in “Glimmer,” hunted through the urban alleys of “Cold Wind” during a holiday blizzard, swept along irresistible currents of “Down the Path of the Sun,” and, in “Many Things in Dumnet,” a novella published here for the first time, brought ashore as a stranger to land where something is very wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, “Otherwise Unremarkable,” series editor Nisi Shawl's interview with the author, teases out sometimes startling and always satisfying answers to questions on power, activism, immigration, cognitive poetics, and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Dazzling . . . Griffith’s lyrical prose emphasizes the savagery of the political landscape.” \u003cem\u003eParis Review Daily \u003c\/em\u003eon \u003cem\u003eHild\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Uncompromisingly packed with non-dogmatic feminist and queer ideologies. . . . Griffith reveals herself to be fluent in presenting realistic science and its implications, capable of cinematic clarity in her prose, insightful with emotions and character.” \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ms. Griffith is an astonishingly gifted writer. . . . Her work is of the very best in the lesbian and gay literary field.” Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In Griffith’s hands, a conversation . . . is as thrilling as a spear thrust through a man’s cheek.” Nicole Rudick, \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e on \u003cem\u003eMenewood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Gorgeously supple prose . . . startlingly beautiful” Amal El-Mohtar, on \u003cem\u003eHild\u003c\/em\u003e, NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With its persuasive characters trying to form identities in an unstable society, its midnight streets and shabby apartments, and its vast industrial engines, \u003cem\u003eSlow River\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful prose poem on issues that are already with us.” Gary Wolfe, \u003cem\u003eLocus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Nicola Griffith’s prose is beautiful in every sense of the word.” April Adams, \u003cem\u003eThe Lesbian Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Griffith brings all her genius to this book.” Maria Dahvana Headley on \u003cem\u003eMenewood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A serious assault on conventions so enormous that it is very much more dangerous, sometimes, than writing about lesbianism.” Dorothy Allison on \u003cem\u003eAmmonite\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A body-slam of empowerment, a roar of frustration so sustained and compelling that it cannot be ignored.” Katharine Coldiron, Arts Fuse on \u003cem\u003eSo Lucky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Incisive and devastatingly beautiful.” Vulture on \u003cem\u003eSpear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Brutal, unsparing . . . full of power and healing.” Joanne Rixon, \u003cem\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/em\u003e review of \u003cem\u003eSo Lucky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Nicola Griffith’s first novel, \u003cem\u003eAmmonite\u003c\/em\u003e, flies all the banners of traditional sf but beneath the banners, it is armed to the teeth against convention.” \u003cem\u003eInterzone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern age.” \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e on \u003cem\u003eSpear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eHild\u003c\/em\u003e is a world built fiber by fiber from the ground up, immersive as a river in rain.” Amal El-Mohtar, NPR, on \u003cem\u003eHild\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Griffith’s prose is at once brutal and beautifully wrought” \u003cem\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e on \u003cem\u003eStay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A knockout!” Ursula K. Le Guin on \u003cem\u003eAmmonite\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Fierce! A disconcerting but very necessary book.” Dana Hansen, \u003cem\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, on \u003cem\u003eSo Lucky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A classic for the ages.” Karen Rought, \u003cem\u003eSubjectify\u003c\/em\u003e, on \u003cem\u003eSpear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Luxuriously long and utterly absorbing.” \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, on \u003cem\u003eHild\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicola Griffith\u003c\/strong\u003e is the winner of the Otherwise (formerly the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial) Award, Lambda Literary, Premio Italia, Nebula, Washington State Book Award, Society of Authors ADCI Literary Prize, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Prize, and World Fantasy Award. Recent titles include \u003cem\u003eHild\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMenewood\u003c\/em\u003e, both from FSG; \u003cem\u003eSpear\u003c\/em\u003e from Tordotcom; and the crime thrillers \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Place\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStay\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAlways\u003c\/em\u003e, reissued by Picador. In 2024 she was inducted to the SFF Hall of Fame. She lives in Seattle, Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44322534817885,"sku":"9798887441498","price":22.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/SheisHere.jpg?v=1774971205","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/fr\/products\/she-is-here","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}