Description: A memoir of Melena, five-times married, mother, burlesque dancer, and "the hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails."
Review Quotes: Praise for You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek)
"This is writing and reading as adventure, where every page can bring a different sort of revelation." -Kirkus, starred review "With her latest book, Eleni Sikelianos sashays with the essay, teasing us with the literary device's exotic form." --Los Angeles Review "Sikelianos' portrait includes poems, unusual typography, and photographs that would not look out of place in a W. G. Sebald novel." --Booklist "Through artifacts--lists of songs, newspaper clippings, photographs, film posters, staged interviews, poems--the poet Sikelianos assembles a textual chimera that keeps sliding through her fingers." --The Believer "Readers are granted entrance into an unconventional method of storytelling Sikelianos has made all her own." --Bookslut "A moving story told in an inventive form." --Shelf Unbound "Poetry, translation, narration, novelization, and memory all grapple for your attention in this brilliant debut novel." --BuzzFeed "No matter how one summarizes its scope or achievement, You Animal Machine (The Golden Greek) will surpass it, with its too much mother-static, its fundamental wildness." --Maggie Nelson "This is Sikelianos at her most rapturous and hallucinatory." --John D'Agata