A Token of My Affliction - Softcover

"This collection is as brilliant as it is terrifying . . . For Janette Platana, to have an affliction is to be a person . . . I highly recommend this book." --Evelyn Deshane, The Rusty Toque "So funny. So perfect; so true. I really haven't got one negative thing to say about this book. You should read it. Janette Platana is one of our best." --Richard Rosenbaum, Broken Pencil

These cheerfully disturbing, gleefully outraged, and chillingly beautiful stories break open the lives of apparently ordinary people who struggle and sometimes succeed in living without compromise, refusing to sacrifice the world they sense to the world they see, and where things can be true without ever being real. The range of this accomplished and poetic voice may cause vertigo, owing, as it does, as much to the Clash to Stephen King, to Caitlin Moran as to Flannery O'Connor, and something to David Sedaris. A Token of My Affliction will make you laugh while breaking your heart wide open.