Call It Horses (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781950539253)

Frankie is an orphan (or a reluctant wife). Mave is an autodidact (or the town pariah). Nan is an artist (or the town whore). Each separately haunted, Frankie, Mave, and Nan--with a hound in tow--set out in an Oldsmobile Royale for Abiqui and the desert of Georgia O'Keeffe, seeking an escape from everything they've known.

Frankie records the journey in letters to her aunt Mave's dead lover, a linguist named Ruth, sketching out her troubled life and her complicated relationship with Mave, who became her guardian when Frankie was orphaned at sixteen. Slowly, one letter at a time, Frankie exposes the ruins of herself and her fellow passengers: things that chase them, that died too soon, that never lived.

With lush prose and brutal empathy, Frankie tells Ruth--and herself--the story of liminality experienced by a woman standing just outside of motherhood, fulfillment, and love.

Author: Jessie Van Eerden
ISBN-10: 1950539253
ISBN-13: 9781950539253
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2021
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/25/2021
Booklist 02/15/2021 pg. 23