Yellow - Hardcover

by Amy Pence (Author)

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR

"Mysterious and mesmerizing."--Claire Stanford, Author of Happy for You

Yellow is a luminous, genre-defying debut that fuses cosmic mystery, trauma, and transformation. It will take you on a journey through time, space, and the inner wilderness of one girl's mind.

It's 1973: summer of the Watergate hearings and Skylab's launch into space when 12-year-old Z discovers an unclassified slime mold growing in her Louisiana backyard. Something compels her deep coherence with this magical creature-until an incident with a serial killer at the lake disrupts their connection. Both mystifying and metaphorical, Yellow becomes a guiding force for her brother Clem, a New Orleans seeker. As years pass, Z tries to recover what life has taught her to forget. A multi-threaded novel, Yellow weaves fact, physics, space exploration, and philosophy to create a transcendent reading experience.

Author Biography

Amy Pence is the author of the poetry collections The Decadent Lovely and Armor, Amour, two chapbooks, Skin's Dark Night and Your Posthumous Dress, as well as the award-winning hybrid [It] Incandescent. Her poetry, short fiction, reviews, and interviews have appeared in over 100 literary magazines. Raised in New Orleans and Las Vegas, Amy studied poetry at the University of Arizona. She taught college English, poetry writing at Emory and in other workshop settings, and now tutors high schoolers part-time. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.