FEVER
by Shilo Niziolek
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Pub Date Oct 07 2022 | Archive Date Sep 15 2023
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Description
A memoir made up of essays fragments, Fever, examines what it is to desire throughout all phases and states of life and being. Niziolek mixes plain language with poetic prose to interrogate trauma from domestic violence and illness, sexuality, and the different ways we can and do love despite these things. All of this comes together to create a keen focus on the many ways one can experience desire and its intersection with love.
Advance Praise
"Fever’s painstaking sentences have an inimitable prosody and flavor, and they cast bright heat, warming and curing each other. This fever is one that we’re lucky to have."
—Sarah Manguso, author of Very Cold People
“Shilo Niziolek’s Fever is a searing portrait of a kaleidoscopic life. It specifically describes the experiences of illness, grief, and eros and the mysterious ways these three conditions emerge like a Hydra as one. The prose shows how loss of one kind of body gives way to the creation of many new bodies: the dreaming body, the remembering body, the writing body (along with the texts the writing body makes), and the body that encounters the presence of absence most profoundly through feelings of love and desire for what lies just beyond reach, but also beyond her experience of pain. While it might be easy to categorize Fever as prose about illness—that it is, distinctly so—it is also a book about spiritual love and the many ways it manifests in our lives. It makes for a very poignant reading experience.”
—Jay Ponteri, author of Someone Told Me
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798986078892 |
| PRICE | $20.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 172 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 1206626
I don't think I have the capability to describe how much I loved reading this.
I was instantly drawn into the memoir/essay collection and honestly shocked when, two hours later, I tapped my screen and what greeted me was the acknowledgments page and not more beautiful writing.
I want to knit Niziolek's prose into a scarf, cocoon it around my neck, and carry it around with me. Really some of the most stunning, fervent writing I've read recently. Loved the non-linear narrative, the descriptions of dreams, and the slow inching ahead on the healing path. Loved the ending (even though I had to go back and read it slowly and force myself to understand that this is the end). I'll definitely be checking out more of the author's writing. At the moment, I'm still reeling a bit from flurry of emotions that "Fever" ignited within me and looking forward to a deep reflection in my journal about love, aging, sexuality, desire, and pain.
I highly recommend this book. Please read the trigger warnings before reading though.
A very huge thank you to NetGalley and Querencia Press for the eARC of this brilliant memoir. All thoughts were my own.
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