The Ladies

Synopsis

Fiction. In The Ladies, A Trio Of Professional Mourners Contemplates Their Fate, While Their Days Are Consumed By The Various Rituals Of Grief And An Intense Hunger That Never Seems To Be Sated. The Chorus-like Quality Of The Narrative Offers The Haunting Element Of The Mythological, Where Past And Present Merge And Become Nearly Indistinguishable. In Dream-like, Crystalline Prose, This Novel Interrogates The Complexity Of Existence, Of Mourning, Of Identity, Of Origins.