In this bold literary debut, Gordon tells the story of a woman's painful and liberating struggle to reconcile her body, the onset of mast-cell leukemia, and her dreams. Her discovery takes her from backstage parties to London flats to the shores of Barbados.
In this bold literary debut, Gordon tells the story of a woman's painful and liberating struggle to reconcile her body, the onset of mast-cell leukemia, and her dreams. Her discovery takes her from backstage parties to London flats to the shores of Barbados.
Dazzling in its language, exquisitely moving and desperately funny, Fran Gordon's Paisley Girl is a work of rare power. From the novel's first line - "Word has spread of my body" - we are thrust into the mind of a young unnamed woman whose skin is spiraled by mast-cell leukemia...