{"product_id":"saint-gredible-and-her-fat-dads-mass-9798218046903","title":"Saint Gredible and Her Fat Dad's Mass","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGretty\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehas more clutching at her than her mom's knapsacked ashes. Her legacy includes a web of stories: some from grandfathers who survived the Holocaust and some from parents who didn't. These stories are woven by living cultures and deadly traumas so much deeper and older. These stories continue to grow and tangle.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorn deaf and on the spectrum, it's a challenge not to be eccentric.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnowing her parents didn't want her, it's a struggle not to surrender to sadness. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlive and full of fight, it's impossible NOT to be \u003cem\u003eferocious!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis odd novel is a clutch of stories, poems, songs, dramas, and prayers which \"congeal\" to query the value of the narratives we partially create and which partially create us. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre we \"really\" the stories we tell ourselves we are?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn one level it's the story of an ENORMOUSLY inadequate man and his bumbling attempts to explain certain disturbances to his tiny semi-autistic, hyper-kinetic, and profoundly deaf daughter. The principal disturbances he flails with are The Holocaust and its ever-rippling effects on their family including the suicide of his wife (HER mother). But \"Gredible\" has cochlear implants which she can employ to shut down audible input-or to surreptitiously listen and absorb, not that her dopy Fat Dad is particularly circumspect about what he says in front of her. But when his daughter's body betrays the inexorable symptoms of outgrowing childhood, \"what churses does he gotz? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen there are the stories of her two grandfathers, each with aged arms scarred with certain bleak tattoos. Before he died, one grandad had strived with gentle strangeness to inoculate her (and all children) from human evil, creating absurdly inappropriate \"stories\" with input from Gredible and her Fat Dad. Her other grandfather (alive at the start of this novel) fiercely refused either to tell tales or to conceal secrets, but nevertheless was at the center of all manner of unsettling rumors and questions. Still, somehow prior to language or even cognition, little Streamly Gredible is burdened with a certain type of somatic \"knowledge\" of what all the adults are fumbling with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is her own type of disturbance, and WE ARE THE BIG BANG!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn another level \"Saint Gredible and Her Fat Dad's Mass\" is a comic agitation and an open-ended agony about the consequence of bringing any new being into our streaming rush of existence with all its ferocious push and accelerating forces. And, given her multiple legacies from many progenitors, this child is rigidly constituted to accept neither victimhood or passivity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are \"created\" only to create in ever expanding dimensions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehttps: \/\/www.streamlygredible.com\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4116808\"\u003eJoe Panzica\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kalabram\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/09\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798218046903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8218046909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC064000\"\u003eAbsurdist\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC039000\"\u003eVisionary \u0026amp; Metaphysical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kalabram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44564319535341,"sku":"9798218046903","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_6d686831-5d31-4103-8e4f-230505e24e4e.jpg?v=1701850676","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/saint-gredible-and-her-fat-dads-mass-9798218046903","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}