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JONI MURPHY was born in New Mexico lives in New York. Her debut novel, Double Teenage, was named one of The Globe and Mail's 100 Best Books of 2016. Her second novel, Talking Animals, was published in 2020.
"Double Teenage seems like the definitive book of The Young Girl as
defined by Tiqqun. It's also a definitive book about NAFTA, the
Ciudad Juarez femicides, spectacular serial killings, and media's
comforting lull." --Chris Kraus for The Millions
"Murphy seems to suggest this interpersonal connection that endures
despite external and internalized misogyny is magic and is its own
dizzying and overlapping network of survival and creation. In a
culture mostly interested in the spectacle of dead girls, Double
Teenage is a formally provocative counter spell to the facts of
violence." --Adele Barclay for The Rusty Toque
"Brilliant and necessary." --Jade Colbert, The Globe and Mail
"Double Teenage is undoubtedly a feminist text, but it isn't one
that offers a pretty picture of its characters overcoming
male-dominated systems of power. The book ends with that cryptic
line: "This is a spell for getting out of girlhood alive." Either
this is Murphy's metaphor for the entire book and the instructions
are hidden within its pages, or it is a nihilistic gesture to show
that the systems of patriarchy are embedded so deeply within every
aspect of our society that only something as impossible as magic
can fix it." --Shannon Tien, Maisonneuve
"...this is a novel gesturing outwards, pointing to the world,
using the world and its threads to build something new, offering
structure, frameworks, where we hadn't seen such a thing before.
Daring to state that girlhood is significant, even if it's a stage,
and even if it's a stage." --Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This
"Joni Murphy's narrative straddles the line between a
character-driven story and a treatise to be discussed, something
living and breathing and something only understood from afar. There
is more than one way to look at it, more than one valid formula."
--Buried in Print
Double Teenage is a stunning first novel, moving with stealth and
intelligence against the North American landscape. -- Chris Kraus,
author of I Love Dick
"Joni Murphy speaks to us directly. She speaks to us from a place
of borders, of countries, and of languages that are strange to her
and in need of reinvention. Through her ear and her eye, through
her transmissions from these dusklands, we recognize something
actual, an event or place, but cross-examined, rendered and
remixed. Sometimes theatrical, sometimes cinematic, always urgent
and painted on a broad canvas, unafraid of the depth of each
landscape, of the mountains that we cannot see that lie beyond the
mountains that we can. Her monologues follow the flow of thought --
visual, critical, poetic, nostalgic. She speaks to where we are now
-- when the 'we' is the individual and the body politic, in this
historical moment, where this marginal place, through the thought
of her writing, becomes the centre." -- Matthew Goulish, founding
member of the performance groups Goat Island and Every House Has a
Door
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