Sleight
Book description
Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for sleight, an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. After being estranged for several years, the sisters are reunited by a deceptive and ambitious sleight troupe director named West who needs the…
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This book’s vivid originality and dark, immersive power gripped me. Kaschock reinvents storytelling to serve a story that couldn’t be told any other way.
Sleight is a kinetic performance art that could only exist on the page, making it doubly remarkable how fully Kaschock convinces us of its eerie power and destructive potential. Sisters Lark and Clef, both sleightists, have been marked and maimed by the art; their otherworldly capabilities are enlisted by iconoclastic, amoral impresario West to fashion a performance in which art becomes atrocity.
Kaschock trusts readers to do the work of reading—to linger on notions that zig…
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