Spoilers

SPOILERS

Mark Foss • Literary Fiction / Experimental Fiction

Book Description

A single act by Dr. Mahlon Locke — a Depression-era physician whose foot-pulling technique drew tens of thousands of pilgrims to small-town Ontario — ripples across decades in Mark Foss's formally inventive SPOILERS. Through interconnected narratives spanning generations, Foss traces the invisible threads that bind dreamers, charlatans, authors, and the ordinary people whose lives are reshaped by forces they cannot name.

At the heart of the novel, a woman decodes vintage postcards in a desperate attempt to reconstruct — and save — herself. Around her, a constellation of characters wrestle with fame, art, authenticity, and the strange alchemy by which a single story becomes legend. Foss assembles these fragments with the precision of a collagist, letting the gaps speak as loudly as the text, building a narrative that questions the very nature of narrative itself.

SPOILERS is a meditation on what endures and what erodes — the postcards we send, the stories we tell, the selves we construct from the debris of the past. For readers of experimental literary fiction who believe that form is meaning, and that the spaces between words can hold entire worlds.

Author Bio

See BORROWED MEMORIES (above).

Book Details

Also by This Author

BORROWED MEMORIES (published by 8th House), MOLLY O, KISSING THE DAMNED

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