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Join Jennifer Ilse Black for the launch of her new novel Fulfillment (ARP Books).https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781997544142/jennifer-ilse-black/fulfillment
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/ODux_Ywa4lQ
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Art school dropout Nora sorts packages at a consumer fulfillment centre where the frequent worker injuries are treated by replacing human body parts with plastic. At night she mixes paints, preoccupied by a shade of purple she can only achieve in dream. Reg, an art student with a plastic liver, works on an installation about the opposing benefits and harms of oil extraction. Meanwhile, a social media influencer is building a cultic self-help brand. Utilizing AI tools that alter her appearance and create hypnotic digital settings for her to occupy, she convinces her followers to abandon worldly concerns in order to access their destiny in the cosmos. Reality blurs and disintegrates in this multi-perspective narrative when plastic bodies start to get sick and digital augmentation breaks down.
Fulfillment plays with dreamscapes, poetic digression, social media captions, and literary prose to explore mental health, physical health, and material reality under late capitalist labour and ecological exploitation.
Jennifer Ilse Black lives in Winnipeg. She holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Manitoba and studied at Cartae Open School. Her debut novella Small Predators was nominated for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and received the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the Manuela Dias Award for Book Design.
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McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue,Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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