Entangled Objects: A Novel in Quantum Parts
Ebook
Overview
Entangled Objects is a contemporary pilgrim’s progress, the story of three very different yet interconnected women. As the story advances, their overlapping lives reveal the mysterious entanglement of quantum behavior. Fan is a struggling adjunct professor. When she and her husband move to Korea so he can investigate the cloning of human cells, she finds herself having an affair, even as her husband gets caught trying to publish falsified research. Filomena is a maid who begins to steal clothing from the rooms of wealthy guests, dressing up and haunting the hotel where she works. As she questions her own sexuality, she becomes obsessed with televangelists and begins communicating anonymously with hotel guests through text messages, delivering reassurances and warnings. Finally, there is Cate, a reality star who manages her own reality television career and that of her family. She orchestrates the alcoholic binges of her rock-star husband, edits the family’s daily footage, arranges re-shoots, and crafts her world as well as that of her mother and sisters. As the characters’ lives converge, all three confront the question: when are we most ourselves, when we realize the selves we aspire to, or when we are unadorned? Their meeting will leave them all changed forever.
“Entangled Objects navigates with uncanny sensitivity and
roofless imagination the multiplicity of self. With compassion
Paola Antonetta asks, who are we when alone, unobserved? What
illusory versions of the self fuel our deepest longings and
regrets? The frictive sparks these unreconciled selves emit in
collusion and collision propel these narratives in surprising
directions that allow for unexpected beauty.”
—Gina Ochsner, author of The Hidden Letters of Velta
B.
“Entangled Objects is a deeply ruminative, almost
impressionistic work of art about three women who are entangled
without touching, who share a metaphysical sense of time and place
and meaning but whose physical worlds couldn’t be at greater odds.
I was reminded by turns of Marilynne Robinson and Robert Stone,
Virginia Woolf and Andrea Barrett too. But these lives, at once
disparate and attuned to one another, and the frank and tender
beauty with which they are rendered, are all Susanne Paola
Antonetta.”
—Bret Lott, Professor of English, The College of
Charleston
- Title: Entangled Objects: A Novel in Quantum Parts
- Author: Susanne Paola Antonetta
- Publisher: Slant
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725252042, 9781725252028, 9781725252035, 172525204X, 1725252023, 1725252031
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725252042
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T20:17:52Z
Susanne Paola Antonetta is the author of Make Me a Mother, Curious Atoms, Body Toxic, A Mind Apart, the novella Stolen Moments, and four books of poetry. Her awards include a Library Journal Best Science Book of the Year, a New York Times Notable Book, and an American Book Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Orion, The New Republic, and many other journals and anthologies.