Dana Spiotta – författare

''Furious and addictive'' New York Times ''Urgent, deeply moving, wholly original'' GEORGE SAUNDERS''A dazzling lightning bolt of a novel'' JENNY OFFILL''Fiercely funny and deliciously subversive'' YIYUN LI''Wayward reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad'' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW''***** If there''s any justice in the world, Spiotta''s firecracker of a novel, Wayward, will bring her the attention she very much deserves'' Lucy Scholes, SUNDAY TELEGRAPHSamantha Raymond''s life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and she finds herself staring into ''the Mids'' - hours of supreme wakefulness when women of a certain age contemplate their lives. For Sam, this means motherhood, mortality and the state of an unravelling nation. When Sam falls in love with a decrepit Arts and Crafts house on the wrong side of town, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life, attempting to find beauty in the ruins. ''One of the most wildly talented writers in America. This is Spiotta''s best book yet'' GEORGE SAUNDERS ''A slyly funny, clever and compelling story about the righteous (and rarely irrational) rage of women of a certain age'' SARRA MANNING, RED magazine''A piercing novel about what we lose and gain by when we step out of life''s deepest worn grooves'' VOGUE''She writes with sly humour and utter seriousness; a rare articulation of midlife now'' CLAIRE MESSUD''What begins as a vertiginous leap into hilarious rabbit holes ends as a brilliant meditation on mortality and time. How does she do it? Only Dana Spiotta knows. I''m just happy to see her work her magic'' JENNY OFFILL

Stone Arabia is about family, obsession, memory, and the urge to create—in isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all culture.

In the sibling relationship, "there are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know each other," says Denise Kranis. For her and her brother Nik, now in their forties, no relationship is more significant. They grew up in Los Angeles in the late seventies and early eighties. Nik was always the artist, always wrote music, always had a band. Now he makes his art in private, obsessively documenting the work, but never testing it in the world. Denise remains Nik''s most passionate and acute audience, sometimes his only audience. She is also her family''s first defense against the world''s fragility. Friends die, their mother''s memory and mind unravel, and the news of global catastrophe and individual tragedy haunt Denise. When her daughter Ada decides to make a film about Nik, everyone''s vulnerabilities seem to escalate.

In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker—passionate, idealistic, and in love—design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes wrong, the course of their lives is forever changed. The two must erase their past, forge new identities, and never see each other again.

Now it is the 1990s. Mary lives in the suburbs with her fifteen-year-old son, who spends hours immersed in the music of his mother’s generation. She has no idea where Bobby is, whether he is alive or dead.

Shifting between the protests in the 1970s and the consequences of those choices in the 1990s, Dana Spiotta deftly explores the connection between the two eras—their language, technology, music, and activism. Character-driven and brilliant, this is an important and revelatory novel about the culture of rebellion, with particular resonance now.