Floating Notes

by Babak Lakghomi

Overview

Floating Notes is a novella of mystery, murder, intrigue, and love. In the space of a hundred pages, Lakghomi wroughts a unique narrator, a god in a rented room, where things appear and disappear from his life. And people are watching―or maybe they're not. There are no clear answers, there are no solutions, and everything is anything in Floating Notes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780999218617
Publisher:	Tyrant Books
Publication date:	08/07/2018
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

Babak Lakghomi lives in Toronto.

Editorial Reviews

07/16/2018
It’s hard to imagine a more apt title than the one chosen for Lakghomi’s mind-bending debut. Told in unnumbered, untitled entries that range from a single sentence to a page or two, the book starts straightforwardly, with the first-person narrator confessing disjointedly and without explanation that he often introduces himself as Bob, though that is not his real name. In the next entry, a man named Bob introduces himself, in a more open but similarly peripatetic voice, offering more autobiographical tidbits. Is this the same Bob or not? The reader is left to decide. The slender volume unfolds as a series of reminiscences that relate to other entries in at least a tangential—if not a chronological or even sequential—way. Much musing centers around a young woman named Lily, who disappeared, and another named Sheila, who, for a while, is also partnered with Bob and invested in the search for Lily before herself disappearing. The reader gets a tapestry of a mystery, with significant details consciously omitted. Anticipation is built as each clarifying or obfuscating piece is added to the picture. What’s most arresting is that each element is crafted with economy and a poetic sense of the authority of detail. This is a crisply written and piquant novella about the nature of identity and the absurdity of logic. (June)

Publishers Weekly

"Floating Notes is a lonely and provocative book. Lakghomi gives us a riddle unraveled but never solved. His people cling to artifacts they cannot decipher in a landscape stripped of beauty, lawless and volatile, a place of symbols that will not cohere." - Noy Holland, author of I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like “Wholly original, raw, scary, almost too close to life, almost too honest. A dangerous voice, a real artist. And yet, full of compassion for the lonely, heartbreaking project of trying to be a decent human being in a world of accelerating alienation.“ -Clancy Martin, author of “How to Sell” and “Bad Sex

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