Descent
Autor Arria Deepwateren Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 oct 2025
Arria Deepwater’s Descent is a modern fairy tale exploring the vulnerability and strength that come with living in an unconventional body, especially for those living with the experience of disabilities, chronic illness, hyper-medicalization, objectification, and 2SLGBTQIA+ identities. The reader is invited to become an observer of isolation, violation, and the magic of secret joy. Descent moves through entangled connections and dissolving boundaries between humanity and the natural world as it seeks to weave a spell of protection for those whose bodies do not conform, for whom existence is a radical act of rebellion and creativity.
Exploring boundaries of intimacy, fluidity, and grief, Deepwater brings an eco-feminist speculative twist to the growing canon of writers with marginalized identities. Deepwater considers the fractured reality of living in a queer disabled body and how we might find freedom, safety, and spiritual healing despite grief.
Descent is the winner of Omnidawn’s 2022 Fabulist Fiction Contest, chosen by Michelle Ruiz Keil.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781632431714
ISBN-10: 1632431718
Pagini: 72
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
Colecția Omnidawn
ISBN-10: 1632431718
Pagini: 72
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
Colecția Omnidawn
Notă biografică
Arria Deepwater is a writer and spiritual practitioner living in the unceded Omàmiwinini territory known as Ontario, Canada.
Recenzii
"Descent is absolutely captivating. Within the first few lines of the story, you will be swirled into a world of rich imagery and intrigue. Once you start reading it, you won’t be able to stop with its rich, luscious images that illuminate the senses. As we witness Sona’s journey, we are drawn into a world that seems so strange as she seeks to find her own belonging. The story tackles many themes from being accepted for exactly who we are, to the harshness of society when we are different, to how our rights are violated in the name of science. It’s a tale of exploration and finding our truth amongst the injustice—very in tune with what is happening in the world right now."
"In gloriously rich and immersive prose, Deepwater tells the story of Sona, whose 'abnormal' body casts her into a life of struggle—and a life of gifts. This confronting tale will have you rooting for its warm and complex protagonist while also reflecting on broader themes of bodily autonomy, disability justice, grief, eco-liberation, and the many routes to resistance and survival. All at once heartwarming and heartbreaking, enraging and hopeful, Descent is transcendent."
"Rich and entrancing, Descent peels back the layers of growing up 'other'—disabled, neurodiverse, marginalized in any way—and lays them bare on a riverbank. Descent entwines lush and unflinching storytelling to create a deeply compelling narrative that grips you to the very end."
"Deepwater’s story Descent begins and ends with the body. Deepwater’s gift for transmuting sensation into words is present on every page, a portal into the experience of a unique being. Deepwater upends a familiar fish-out-of-water sci-fi trope with every twist of the plot, giving Descent’s protagonist a bright childhood with a loving mother and an adult life that works well—or well enough. Throughout the story, with delicate and precise language and a vivid sense of place, Deepwater explores the mentality of the colonizer, the meaning of wildness, and the perspective of the non-human living beings in our world. Arria Deepwater is a talent to watch for. I’m looking forward to reading their future work."
"Deepwater’s Descent brings the beautiful and strange alive in language as fluid and sparkling as the water that courses through these pages. A tale that is both pilgrimage and revelation, filled with horror and also renewal, Sona’s journey is one that invites us to re-imagine what it means to belong to a body—and from there, to belong to the world."
"Lyrical, earthy, somatic, even allegorical, Descent shines a relentless light on the ways we objectify others, the illusions we harbour of separateness (even from the natural world), and the irrevocable harm we may do as a result. It left me yearning to immerse myself, along with the protagonist, in the earthly, loving, all-enveloping source of our being. An immensely evocative and provocative read, and an ode to mud that is anything but murky."
"With Descent, Deepwater strikes again by creating enduring imagery that rolls along effortlessly, often in just one sentence. A seasoned writer’s prose that captures your reader’s heart from the first paragraph. Descent is well-plotted with developed characters to love and others to revile in a speculative world that is very relatable and accessible. And like any good tale dropping breadcrumbs, Deepwater pulls the reader in on an irresistible ride to the fantastical end. Well done!"