Bøker i Spatial Species-serien

Art about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open spaceBorealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan's experiences moving through the Alaskan outdoors. In Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan observes shorelines, mountains, bald eagles, and Black fellow travelers while feeling menaced by the specter of nature writing. She considers the meaning of open spaces versus enclosed ones and maps out the web of queer relationships that connect her to this quaint Alaskan town. Triangulating the landscapes she moves through with glacial backdrops in the work of Black conceptual artists and writers, Sabatini Sloan complicates tropes of Alaska to suggest that the excitement, exploration, and possibility of myth-making can also be twinned by isolation, anxiety, and boredom.Borealis is the first book commissioned for the Spatial Species series, edited by Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen. The series investigates the ways we activate space through language. In the tradition of Georges Perec's An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Spatial Species titles are pocket-sized editions, each keenly focused on place. Instead of tourist spots and public squares, we encounter unmarked, noncanonical spaces: edges, alleyways, diasporic traces. Such intimate journeying requires experiments in language and genre, moving travelogue, fiction, or memoir into something closer to eating, drinking, and dreaming.

An elegant novel with a strong sense of storytelling and delightful eccentricities of form, such as the use of emails, poems, letters, diary entries, and descriptions of artworks embedded within the traditional prose. The writing throughout is fluid and engrossing, making it a very entertaining read.The Spanish edition of Bilbao–New York–Bilbao has sold over 100,000 copies and won Spain’s National Literature Award.Spiritual cousin to Noemi Lefebvre’s Blue Self-Portrait. Perfect for readers of autofiction like Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and for fans of Rachel Cusk and Olga Tokarczuk.Second volume in Coffee House’s Spatial Species series, with series branding and elegant french flaps. Includes introduction by series editor Youmna Chlala.