The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show - Ariel Gore [75]
5. What are you reading right now?
Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil by Inga Muscio and Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
6. What is your favorite book of all time?
I think I’m going to go with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
7. Coffee or tea?
Coffee
8. What was the vision, inspiration, or event that first caused you to start writing this story?
Two traveling adventures: a west-coast book tour with a band and a shadow puppet show, then a summer in Italy wandering saint sites.
9. What do you consider your first real piece of writing?
Little Red Riding Hood.
10. What is your favorite memory?
Underwater childhood. Either Silver Lake or the Pacific Ocean.
11. If you could live in another time and place, when and where would that be?
Shanghai, first half of the twentieth century. Kill me off before the Cultural Revolution.
12. Who is your oldest friend?
Julia from junior high school. We used to go jogging together and then get drunk before first period.
13. What do you consider the absolute most important question to ask someone when you want to find out their deepest and most heartfelt identity?
What were you before you were a gender?
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Little Red Riding Hood
by Ariel Gore, 1974
The ocean shone white and blue
While Little Red Riding Hood was watching it.
The sun was almost to land on the ground.
Run, run, run, run.
Then she went home and her mother said,
“Take these cookies to your grandma.”
Then she met a wolf.
But it wasn’t a wolf, it was her Daddy.
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About the Author
The daughter of an excommunicated Roman Catholic priest, Ariel Gore grew up attending her dad’s rebel Catholic church in the San Francisco Bay Area. She left home at age sixteen and spent the years she was supposed to be in high school as an international bag lady traveling through Asia and Europe. She gave birth to her daughter—not immaculately conceived—in rural Italy and returned to California at age nineteen, baby in tow.
Following her misspent youth, she became addicted to caffeine and earned degrees from Mills College and the University of California at Berkeley, started the award-winning parenting zine Hip Mama, authored three parenting books, then up and moved north. Her lyrical vagabond memoir, Atlas of the Human Heart, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in 2004. A veteran of several west-coast road shows, she drafted The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show in three miraculously child-free kamikaze writing weeks in a farmhouse in Italy. When not manically traversing the globe, she teaches creative writing in Portland, Oregon.
She thanks you for contributing to her daughter’s college fund by purchasing this book and sincerely hopes you enjoyed the show.
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Copyright
THE TRAVELING DEATH AND RESURRECTION SHOW: A Novel. Copyright © 2006 by Ariel Gore. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gore, Ariel
The traveling Death and Resurrection Show : a novel / Ariel Gore. —1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978–0–06–085428–7
ISBN-10: 0–06–085428–6
1. Catholics—Fiction. 2. Traveling theater—Fiction. 3. Belief and doubt—Fiction. 4. Christian saints—Fiction. 5. Young women—Fiction. 6. Stigmatics—Fiction. 7. Orphans—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3607.O5959T73 2006
813’.54—dc22 2005052565
EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200872-5
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