Description: In this petite and exquisite collection, author Matthew O'Leary creates a literary pathway in and out of the pain of loss and the maddening frustration and lack of control human disease can visit upon us, both as patients and as witnesses to its destruction.
Brief description: Matthew O'Leary grew up and lives in Columbia, South Carolina. He has had work featured in Gravel magazine, Birds Piled Loosely, and Fall Lines. If you enjoy this book, buy him a cup of coffee. If you don't, buy him a cup of tea. He hates tea. Find more of his work at matthewoleary.wordpress.com.
Review Quotes:
Matthew O'Leary's Symptoms of Teratoma is a terrifying vision of unrest. In deceptively calm and lucid prose, its speaker lays bare the fragility of body and mind, and confronts the endless dilemma of what "will make you normal." As the book's scope of concerns widens, O'Leary brings urgency and beauty to its unpredictable spiral of narrative. The effects take hold subtly, lulling you into thinking it's your own imagination at work.
John Colasacco, author of Antigolf, The Information Crusher, Two Teenagers, and The Wagners