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Disappearing in reverse / Allie McFarland.

by McFarland, Allie, 1993-

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University of Calgary Press, 2020.

Grief -- Fiction.

Calgary (Alta.) -- Fiction.

Brave & brilliant series ; no. 16.

9781773851433 (trade pbk.)

230 p. ; 23 cm.

Disappearing in Reverse follows a young woman through the challenges of unreconciled loss. Five years prior to the opening scene, the narrator's cousin, Devin, contracts an infection and dies. Everyone believes this story, until her photo appears on the internet with the caption "she is not dead." Convinced that Devin blames her for the infection, the unnamed protagonists embarks on a trip across Western Canada in search of her confidante. She is driven by guilt and grief while negotiating her bisexuality. The protagonist's sense of self unravels as her adventures progress and her past threatens to eclipse her present. True to the picaresque genre, this episodic series of scenes woven together by highways and memories features a revolving cast of side characters. Our protagonist is joined by an ice cream loving corpse, a car thief, and a group of Calgarian hippies, among others. Along the way she steals identities, learns how to fake cooking skills and drink coffee, and how to disappear in plain sight. A novel(la)s, Disappearing in Reverse, is a concise, women-centric narrative that crosses genres and defies easy categorisation. The term novel(la)s denotes a literary space, where this form of writing is met and assessed on its own terms--a place where male-centric expectations falter, and where audacious female characters thrive.

Canadian fiction.

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