In four intertwined tales, Laura Otis invites readers into the minds
of social outsiders and synesthetes with super-sensitive ears.
While leading vastly different lives in German and American cities,
four loners fight to thrive on their own terms. During the pandemic,
an English teacher discarded by her married boyfriend rediscovers
her will to live when she falls in love with a television detective.
A supermarket worker who can hear through touch bonds with
a stray cat who bites her hand. A disrespected museum guard
gets in trouble for making visitors look at a painting that obsesses
him. A translator frustrated by the world’s noise and slow pace
gets stuck behind an old woman on a stalled escalator. Can these
solitary people use their exquisite hearing to heal their wounds
and discover inspiration in unexpected places?
D Minor’s four stories subtly link the lives of social outsiders who
find surprising ways to recover from abuse.
Про автора
Laura Otis moved from neuroscience to literature,
and as a teacher, scholar, and fiction writer, she
has explored how literature and science intersect.
A Mac Arthur and Guggenheim Fellow, she is the
author of six academic books and the novels, The
Tantalus Letters, Auf Wiedersehen, The Memory
Hive, Lacking in Substance, Refiner’s Fire, and
Clean. She is a passionate choral singer and divides
her time between Atlanta, Georgia, and Berlin, Germany.
Author photo credit:
Joe Boris: © 2012
www.Joe Boris.com
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