Zazen - Softcover

Vanessa Veselka is something like a literary comet: bright-burning, far-reaching, rarely seen, and a little dangerous.--Tom BissellAt turns hilarious, unsettling, and improbably sweet, Veselka's debut is, above all, a highly engaging, and totally unique experience, which will have you re-reading passages and dog-earing pages. But best of all, in the end, Zazen is that rare novel which dares to be hopeful in the face of despair, and succeeds.--Jonathan Evison, author of "All About Lulu" and "West of Here"[A] taut...Veselka's prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations...Veselka makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness.--"Publishers Weekly"

In a dystopian America on the verge of war, Della begins making phone calls about false bomb threats in her neighborhood, but realizes too late that she may be part of something bigger when someone starts bombing some of her phony targets.