Suture, Nic Brewer
Suture, Nic Brewer
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Suture

Author: Nic Brewer

Narrator: Athena Karkanis

Unabridged: 3 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Book*hug Press

Published: 05/30/2022

Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+, Horror


Synopsis

To make her films, Eva must take out her eyes and use them as batteries. To make her art, Finn must cut open her chest and remove her lungs and heart. To write her novels, Grace must use her blood to power the word processor. Suture shares three interweaving stories of artists tearing themselves open to make art. Each artist baffles their family, or harms their loved ones, with their necessary sacrifices. Eva's wife worries about her mental health; Finn's teenager follows in her footsteps, using forearm bones for drumsticks; Grace's network constantly worries about the prolific writer's penchant for self-harm, and the over-use of her vitals for art. The result is a hyper-real exploration of the cruelties we commit and forgive in ourselves and others. Brewer brings a unique perspective to mental illness while exploring how support systems in relationships—spousal, parental, familial—can be both helpful and damaging. This exciting debut novel is a highly original meditation on the fractures within us, and the importance of empathy as medicine and glue.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nic

Are you even an author if you don't rate your own book 5 stars on Goodreads? Thank you in advance to everyone who reads, rates, and reviews my first book! I love each and every one of you!......more

Goodreads review by Sunny

a very queer imagining of art making that involves the removal of one’s body parts and usage of it in a literal way and the complicated relationships we have to ourselves as artists and as mothers and as lovers, kinda meta......more

Goodreads review by Tina

SUTURE by Nic Brewer is such a weird and great debut novel that I loved! It’s three interconnected stories about three women artists who literally have to give up parts of their bodies to create their art. I loved how this book brings to life the figurative idea that artists leave themselves in thei......more