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*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
*One of the Best Books of 2013 -Slate, Salon, Flavorwire, Largehearted Boy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor
"To read Jeff Jackson's Mira Corpora is to enter into a trance state. A hypnotic, brutal, and lyric exploration of youth, trauma and the construction of memory, this novel is like nothing I've ever read before and is, unquestionably, one of my favorite books published this year."
-Laura van den Berg, Salon
Mira Corpora is the debut novel from acclaimed playwright Jeff Jackson, an inspired, dreamlike adventure by a distinctive new talent.
Literary and inventive, but also fast-paced and gripping, Mira Corpora charts the journey of a young runaway. A coming-of-age story for people who hate coming-of-age stories, featuring a colony of outcast children, teenage oracles, amusement parks haunted by gibbons, mysterious cassette tapes, and a reclusive underground rockstar.
With astounding precision, Jackson weaves a moving tale of discovery and self-preservation across a startling, vibrant landscape. "A piercing howl of a book. Slyly seductive and utterly gripping-[Jackson's] prose practically crackles and sparks. This punk coming-of-age story smolders long after the book is through."
-Slate
"Episodic yet suspenseful, smeared with gutter detritus yet glittering with right-on apercus, the novel delivers both jolts to the spine and food for thought."
-Bookforum
"[Mira Corpora] reads like an incantation-more like a hex-and to put it down is to break the spell."
-Trop Magazine
"Mira Corpora is a bildungsroman perhaps made most moving by this fact: that the book bears not the trace of an absent chess-master moving markers of sexual obsession in preformatted patterns, but rather the fumbling hand of enchanter attempting to divine the nature of his spell-in-progress, caught at a moment of pseudo-sexual ecstasy, between either self-release or self-annihilation."
-The Brooklyn Rail
"I'd characterize Mira Corpora as a seduction. It heightens the pulse and warps the mind with the allure and cliffhangers of a sexy action flick."
-Full Stop
"There are few coming-of-age-esque novels that don't make me feel like I'm being lied to, manipulated into caring to the point where I can't care at all. Mira Corpora is one of those few. It subverts itself and what it came from so many times that by the end you feel like it could have existed no other way."
-Vice
"Style is pre-eminent in Jeff Jackson's eerie and enigmatic debut. The prose works like the expressionless masks worn by killers in horror films."
-Wall Street Journal
"[A] mesmerizing debut, which reads like some cross between Bruno Schulz and the backstories of random characters from Penelope Spheeris' 1984 film Suburbia. It's the overarching sensibility that also puts Mira Corpora in a unique group of books that can only be dubbed Punk Lit."
-Flavorwire
"A gutter punk Catcher in the Rye."
-Shelf Awareness
"An often sordid and savage phantasmagoria [that] blurs the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, creating an unsettling allegory of growth into adulthood."
-Publishers Weekly
"It's fine work in its manic pacing and its summoning of certain cultural emblems. Present tense with a vengeance. I hope the book finds the serious readers who are out there waiting for this kind of fiction to hit them in the face."
-Don DeLillo Jeff Jackson holds an MFA from NYU and is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Five of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award-winning Collapsable Giraffe company.
*One of the Best Books of 2013 -Slate, Salon, Flavorwire, Largehearted Boy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor
"To read Jeff Jackson's Mira Corpora is to enter into a trance state. A hypnotic, brutal, and lyric exploration of youth, trauma and the construction of memory, this novel is like nothing I've ever read before and is, unquestionably, one of my favorite books published this year."
-Laura van den Berg, Salon
Mira Corpora is the debut novel from acclaimed playwright Jeff Jackson, an inspired, dreamlike adventure by a distinctive new talent.
Literary and inventive, but also fast-paced and gripping, Mira Corpora charts the journey of a young runaway. A coming-of-age story for people who hate coming-of-age stories, featuring a colony of outcast children, teenage oracles, amusement parks haunted by gibbons, mysterious cassette tapes, and a reclusive underground rockstar.
With astounding precision, Jackson weaves a moving tale of discovery and self-preservation across a startling, vibrant landscape. "A piercing howl of a book. Slyly seductive and utterly gripping-[Jackson's] prose practically crackles and sparks. This punk coming-of-age story smolders long after the book is through."
-Slate
"Episodic yet suspenseful, smeared with gutter detritus yet glittering with right-on apercus, the novel delivers both jolts to the spine and food for thought."
-Bookforum
"[Mira Corpora] reads like an incantation-more like a hex-and to put it down is to break the spell."
-Trop Magazine
"Mira Corpora is a bildungsroman perhaps made most moving by this fact: that the book bears not the trace of an absent chess-master moving markers of sexual obsession in preformatted patterns, but rather the fumbling hand of enchanter attempting to divine the nature of his spell-in-progress, caught at a moment of pseudo-sexual ecstasy, between either self-release or self-annihilation."
-The Brooklyn Rail
"I'd characterize Mira Corpora as a seduction. It heightens the pulse and warps the mind with the allure and cliffhangers of a sexy action flick."
-Full Stop
"There are few coming-of-age-esque novels that don't make me feel like I'm being lied to, manipulated into caring to the point where I can't care at all. Mira Corpora is one of those few. It subverts itself and what it came from so many times that by the end you feel like it could have existed no other way."
-Vice
"Style is pre-eminent in Jeff Jackson's eerie and enigmatic debut. The prose works like the expressionless masks worn by killers in horror films."
-Wall Street Journal
"[A] mesmerizing debut, which reads like some cross between Bruno Schulz and the backstories of random characters from Penelope Spheeris' 1984 film Suburbia. It's the overarching sensibility that also puts Mira Corpora in a unique group of books that can only be dubbed Punk Lit."
-Flavorwire
"A gutter punk Catcher in the Rye."
-Shelf Awareness
"An often sordid and savage phantasmagoria [that] blurs the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, creating an unsettling allegory of growth into adulthood."
-Publishers Weekly
"It's fine work in its manic pacing and its summoning of certain cultural emblems. Present tense with a vengeance. I hope the book finds the serious readers who are out there waiting for this kind of fiction to hit them in the face."
-Don DeLillo Jeff Jackson holds an MFA from NYU and is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Five of his plays have been produced by the Obie Award-winning Collapsable Giraffe company.