Lastly, something I became aware of only while working onįinal edits, the book as a whole is a sort of “signing off,” a goodbye to many Thematically and for chapter titles (several chapters are titled “XO” or some That essay later became a sort of base for the book, both Innocent email signature that arose during a love affair and the Xs and Os that Have a lot of weight for me-I often come up with a piece’s title before I startĪ piece, and more often than not, that title sticks.įor XO, I’d written an essay connecting the seemingly I trained as a poet before I switched to prose, so titles It mightīe said that this book started writing itself well before I had any awareness Q: How was the book's title chosen, and what does it signifyĪ: I have a couple different answers to this one. Holistic, relational view of this experience, so I guess I’d say that’s what Spiritually, socially, culturally, and cosmically. Very insular, but the truth is, it was always part of a much bigger picture, Handful of other threads in my life and in life at large.Īn affair-and the resultant secrets and heartbreak-can feel That there was no thread I was writing that was not connected to at least a I never wanted to write a straightforward memoir about theĮxperience, because that felt a bit too flat for me, and originally, I’dĬonceived of the book as a collection of essays, non-linear, overlapping butĪs I pushed into this long-form telling, I started to see Myself was in a long-term, committed relationship with a woman. Narrative thread, which was a love affair I had with a married man, while I On the surface, the book was “inspired” by its main She lives in Massachusetts.Ī: Great question, though I’m not quite sure how to answer She also has written the story collection What Shines from It, and her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Paranoid Tree and Autofocus. Wallace Stegner called this "A major contibution to Native American literature.".Sara Rauch is the author of the new book XO. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation. The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. A handsome nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive flaw. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Near Fine in Wraps: a price has been neAtly rubbed away at the lower rear panel shows only the expected light tanning to the text pages due to aging the binding leans slightly but remains perfectly secure else flawless the text is clean.
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