‘This beautiful book is striking for its echoes of artists who are either quoted or (never gratuitously) emulated, including Godard, Fred Wiseman, Sebald and Perec.’ – La Quinzaine littéraire‘Beautifully translated’ – David Collard, Times Literary SupplementĪ writer commissioned to pen a short entry on Barbara Loden for a cinema encyclopaedia embarks on a trip to America to expand her research. Haunting And best of all, it achieves that most elusive feat of never reading like a translation.’ – Lydia Syson It reads compulsively and is unlike anything else I have read.’ – Selma Dabbagh‘Immensely readable, extremely thought-provoking and really quite ‘Brilliant little book’ – Valeria Luiselli (winner of the 2015 LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for her debut novel, Faces in the Crowd)
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