Links – Seizure
Read her sentences four times each: first, in the most basic way, as the building blocks of narrative, ie, in their unfolding of a story; secondly, for instruction — this is a masterclass on how sentences can be put together with such beauty; thirdly, for the pure pleasure they offer as aesthetic objects; and finally, to repeat all those things in one harmonious commingling. Intense, rapturous, structured like exquisite jewellery, Erica Wagner’s first novel, Seizure, is a dark, hypnotising book. And her website is a treasure trove, a bottomless trunk of delights.