A treasure hunt.
Alice Zorn‘s short stories are about people who harbour relics from their past: a postcard from Vienna, the cigarette burns that scar a boy’s chest, a stolen USB pen, blue concentration camp numbers tattooed on a forearm, a man’s sense of his own body as his HIV overtakes him. The collection displays these talismans of personal history and transforms them into extraordinary stories about relationships between partners, family, friends, and strangers.
I fashioned the title block out of discarded objects found in a grocery store parking lot, representing the tactile things people leave behind, not necessarily aware of the lifespan of a piece of lace or plastic after it has been disposed of.
Client: NeWest Press
Author: Alice Zorn
Publication Date: April 2009
