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Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for "sleight"-an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. Estranged for several years, the sisters are reunited by West, an ambitious sleight troupe director who needs the sisters' opposing approaches to the form-Lark is tormented and fragile, but a prodigy; Clef is driven to excel, but lacks the spark of artistic genius. But when a disturbing mass murder makes national headlines, West seizes on the event as inspiration for his new performance, one that threatens to destroy the very artists performing it-or drive them to the very edge of sanity in this unique novel.
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Reviews
"An unusual, dreamlike tale . . . Gothic and intense, this fully imagined yet partly private work of storytelling [is] . . . Powerfully original."
Kirkus Reviews
"Kaschock . . . weaves a tight story. Her inventive, fragmented style scrambles subjects and objects to squeeze the inner world of artistic process onto the page . . . Sleight is a disgorged dream, painstakingly crystallized; when it ends, you'll want tickets to the show."
The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Kaschock's work stands out for the originality of its concepts, narrative structure, and, particularly, language, as the author redefines words in relation to her art and boldly breaks from traditional grammatical constructions . . . Sleight is to the traditional fiction narrative what alternative music is to mainstream pop."
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