Cut Away (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780980040791)

Cut Away is a novel that expertly entwines the lives of three characters struggling to understand the meaning of identity and its seeming mutability. Orbiting around the mystery of a missing teenager, a trio of narrators each tells her story in turn. Alexandra is a transgendered woman who has refused surgery and abandoned Los Angeles for a trailer at the desolate Salton Sea. Asa, the mother of the runaway, wants her grief-ridden face completely transformed. Eleanor, a plastic surgeon, is fascinated with surfaces and wonders whether visual harmony has the power to change what lies beneath. In a culture obsessed with transforming the body, do the incarnate fictions we create have the power to hide or reveal the truth of who we really are? This is a question that Catherine Kirkwood approaches in a stunning debut novel of desire, self-loathing, and the revisionary madness of our modern world.

Author: Catherine Kirkwood
ISBN-10: 0980040795
ISBN-13: 9780980040791
Publisher: Arktoi Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2010
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d
Award: Triangle Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/15/2010 pg. 115
Library Journal 03/01/2010 pg. 76
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2010
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001