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Join us in celebrating the release of with a book signing and reception at Artbook@Hauser & Wirth Saturday, October 13, 4-6 p.m., 917 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 A fictional archive of altered photos, letters, collages and drawings, Frail Sister is a rescued history of a missing wom- an’s life in which Green poses the question: How does a woman disappear? Nimble, unnerving and darkly funny, Frail Sister examines the thin membrane between resiliency and fragility, the love of family and its betrayals, bringing a forgotten life into focus. Karen Green is an artist and writer whose inventive, hybrid image-text works narrate the intimate spaces of human experience. Her first book Bough Down (Siglio, 2013) earned numerous accolades and a devoted readership. She lives in Northern California and New York City. “What a beautiful, strange book— found objects and fictional prose brought together to tell the real and imagined story of Constance Gale, through letters to her sister, letters from young men at war. From the beginning to the end of the book, we bear witness to a life, too-short but fully-lived. This is simply fascinating and gorgeously written, gorgeously assembled.” —Roxane Gay Glorious, a haunting prism of art and artifact, Frail Sister builds its power as a mystery does, with clues and secrets, the story inseparable from the form. Moving, sly and skillful, a portrait of woman’s life in the embodied history of its materi- als. A marvel. —Janet Fitch Sisters in life and the men who admire, cajole or destroy them stand in for every woman who has felt missing, gone missing, found dead. This is a masterwork creating its own terms for existence—every page a marvelous and terrifying journey. —Claudia Rankine
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Join us in celebrating the release of
with a book signing and reception at Artbook@Hauser & WirthSaturday, October 13, 4-6 p.m., 917 E. 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
A fictional archive of altered photos, letters, collages and drawings, Frail Sister is a rescued history of a missing wom-an’s life in which Green poses the question: How does a woman disappear? Nimble, unnerving and darkly funny, Frail Sister examines the thin membrane between resiliency and fragility, the love of family and its betrayals, bringing a forgotten life into focus.
Karen Green is an artist and writer whose inventive, hybrid image-text works narrate the intimate spaces of human experience. Her first book Bough Down (Siglio, 2013) earned numerous accolades and a devoted readership. She lives in Northern California and New York City.
“What a beautiful, strange book—found objects and fictional prose brought together to tell the real and imagined story of Constance Gale, through letters to her sister, letters from young men at war. From the beginning to the end of the book, we bear witness to a life, too-short but fully-lived. This is simply fascinating and gorgeously written, gorgeously assembled.”
—Roxane Gay
Glorious, a haunting prism of art and artifact, Frail Sister builds its power as a mystery does, with clues and secrets, the story inseparable from the form. Moving, sly and skillful, a portrait of woman’s life in the embodied history of its materi-als. A marvel.
—Janet Fitch
Sisters in life and the men who admire, cajole or destroy them stand in for every woman who has felt missing, gone missing, found dead. This is a masterwork creating its own terms for existence—every page a marvelous and terrifying journey.
—Claudia Rankine
