Unsex Me Here

A fairy tale, in the classic, sparkling, and powerful ways." Michelle Tea If Aurora Mattia is a switchboard operator, then Unsex Me Here is her call log. Please hold. Theres someone on the other line. A spider, a sibyl, an angel, a mermaid, a goddess, or an ex-girlfriend. Unsex Me Here is a prayer book tied together by the strings of a corset. Glamorous ramblers, haunted by the sense of another world drawing near, wander in and out of its inexplicable twilight. From a West Texas town with a supernatural past to a stalactite cavern in the birthplace of Aphrodite, from hotel rooms to gardens to the far horizon of a thought, they seek the source of the disturbance in their minds. Heartbreak is not so far from rapture; holy babble is another kind of gossip. Every pilgrimage is as dense with symbolism as it is refined by desire.