Mulholland Dive

By Vanessa Roveto

"It was the year us girls had a feminine desire to go missing," Vanessa Roveto, acclaimed author of bodys, begins her book within the remnants of a car crash, fragmenting identity, grief, and heart.

Beginning with the death of daddy, the "I" soon meshes with whatever and whomever she comes into contact with-strangers, actors, a Covid crush. She absorbs these people and objects, dispersing them into the Southern California landscape, the Uncanny Valley, warping time and naturalizing dreams.

Documenting a period of both global and personal loss, Roveto crafts a book-length poem that weighs heavier than the Ego in L.A. Splintering Self between Other and palm trees in the summer heat, Mulholland Dive spins a Lynchian setting within a feminine eruption of alluring language, fluked romance, and the aftershocks of grief.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1960988557
• ISBN13: 9781960988553
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Clash Books
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.0"