Cut Away

By Catherine Kirkwood and Ana Huang

Cut Away is a novel that expertly entwines the lives of three characters struggling to understand the meaning of identity and its seeming mutability. Orbiting around the mystery of a missing teenager, a trio of narrators each tells her story in turn. Alexandra is a transgendered woman who has refused surgery and abandoned Los Angeles for a trailer at the desolate Salton Sea. Asa, the mother of the runaway, wants her grief-ridden face completely transformed. Eleanor, a plastic surgeon, is fascinated with surfaces and wonders whether visual harmony has the power to change what lies beneath. In a culture obsessed with transforming the body, do the incarnate fictions we create have the power to hide or reveal the truth of who we really are? This is a question that Catherine Kirkwood approaches in a stunning debut novel of desire, self-loathing, and the revisionary madness of our modern world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0980040795
• ISBN13: 9780980040791
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Arktoi Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"