Indivisible, new edition
  • Published: 31 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9781635901559
  • Imprint: MIT Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $36.00

Indivisible, new edition

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The conclusion of a radically philosophical and personal series of Fanny Howe novels animated by questions of race, spirituality, childhood, transience, resistance, and poverty.

The conclusion of a radically philosophical and personal series of Fanny Howe novels animated by questions of race, spirituality, childhood, transience, resistance, and poverty.

First published by Semiotexte in 2001, Indivisible concludes a radically philosophical and personal series of Fanny Howe novels animated by questions of race, spirituality, childhood, transience, wonder, resistance, and poverty. Depicting the tempestuous multiracial world of artists and activists who lived in working-class Boston during the 1960s, Indivisible begins when its narrator, Henny, locks her husband in a closet so that she might better discuss things with God. On the verge of a religious conversion, Henny attempts to make peace with the dead by telling their stories.
  • Published: 31 May 2022
  • ISBN: 9781635901559
  • Imprint: MIT Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $36.00
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Praise for Indivisible, new edition

"Fanny Howe employs a sometimes fierce, always passionate, spareness in her lifelong parsing of the exchange between matter and spirit. Her work displays as well a political urgency, that is to say, a profound concern for social justice and for the soundness and fate of the polis, the 'city on a hill.'"--Michael Palmer
 
"Fanny Howe isn't part of the local literary canon. But her seven novels about interracial love and utopian dreaming offer a rich social history of Boston in the 1960s and '70s."--The Boston Globe
 
"Fanny Howe is a rebel, down to the cellular level."--Ariana Reines
 
"I can’t think of another contemporary writer who uses language as precisely as Fanny Howe."--Chris Kraus
 
"To read Fanny Howe’s work is to enter a space where the sacred and profane, the mystical and the mundane, vibrate against one another."--Commonweal Magazine