Reminiscent of Percival, Harryette, Ishamel, and Ralph Ellison himself, this is an experimental novel you must read.” “Part incantation, revelation, and elegy, Rone Shavers’ Silverfish offers a surprising New World, Du Boisian source code. Steven Dunn, author of Potted Meat and water & power You’re in for a treat, Reader/Elegba/Hermes/Alternate Being.” It has also left me with big questions that don’t necessarily have answers, but requires an intense process of thought and being, in order to come close to some answers. “ Silverfish has left me with big feelings that I need to sit with and explore. One of the text’s central concerns is whether language can lose its power to transform the world, and that this slim volume manages to be so complex and inventive while also being so entertaining to read is a fitting testament to Shavers’s writerly preoccupations and prowess.” It is an experimental work that combines elements of sci-fi, dystopian, and war fiction with linguistic and literary theory, intertextuality and metacommentary, multiple perspectives and voices, social criticism and satire-all of which is injected with pace and humor and firmly grounded in an Afrofuturistic stance. “Rone Shavers’s debut novel Silverfish is a lively, intelligent, and ambitious book, and refreshingly difficult to categorize. Associate Professor Rone Shavers’ debut novel, Silverfish, just published by CLASH Books, has been impressing readers and critics alike.
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