Lie of the Beholder

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From a high school girl who states, ‘'Assured my guts worked, you could lower me to the shade and watch, as I did, the blue glimmer of my veins;’ to the woman who is devastated that she’s eaten half of a ‘burrito as big as [her] head’ and purges until she’s late for an appointment; to a young man who is so disoriented by his own reflection that he ‘looked down or up [instead,] and noticed what people left behind and what they were aiming for;’ the characters in Lie of the Beholder are fascinatingly honest, deeply human, and above all beautiful. The book is an intimate look at the daily lives of eating disordered individuals, in and out of recovery. Frightening, unorthodox, and not afraid to look the reader in the eye, this writer bears readers through unexplored and challenging territory with unexpected wit, tenderness, and respect for her characters.

deborah brandon recently completed an MFA in Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work appears in Hotel Amerika, Puerto del Sol, Slipstream, Evergreen Chronicles, and BirchLane.

One special edition copy is available. These are from the first ten copies of a run of 60 copies total. They're numbered and signed 1 through 10 and have the same 4x6 photo on the cover. Two typos are hand-corrected in red ink. You'll also receive a pretty little poem, signed and mounted on a small, scalloped-edge gold card (4.25" x 5.5"). The special edition copies also have an extra short story tucked neatly into the end. These copies are $14 each.