Rosie is on an author tour discussing the ways in which her owner has misused her in life, and also in death: ".
The live TV audience also consists of puppets. BuzzFeed's Books Pick of exciting new books you need to read.Continuing to play with form, in chapter five the author delivers the text of a short, animated script, in which an imagined television interview is conducted between Rosie and a talk show-host that happens to be a puppet. Moving from an imaginary talk show where Rosie is interviewed by Myles' childhood puppet to a critical reenactment of the night Rosie mated with another pit bull, from lyrical transcriptions of their walks to Rosie's enlightened narration from the afterlife, Afterglow illuminates all that it can mean when we dedicate our existence to a dog.Įlle magazine's pick of best books to read this fall. Through this lens, we witness Myles' experiences with intimacy and spirituality, celebrity and politics, alcoholism and recovery, fathers and family history, as well as the fantastical myths we spin to get to the heart of grief. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, Afterglow launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true nature of the bond between pet and pet owner. During the course of their 16 years together, Myles was madly devoted to the dog's well-being, especially in her final days.
In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer's life and work. This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: the pit bull called Rosie.
Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work "set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match" ( New York Review of Books).
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