The exhibition of Persephone Q

Resource Information

The work The exhibition of Persephone Q represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The exhibition of Persephone Q

Statement of responsibility

Jessi Jezewska Stevens

Creator

• Stevens, Jessi Jezewska, 1990-

Author

• Stevens, Jessi Jezewska, 1990-

Subject

• Life change events -- Fiction
• Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Art -- Exhibitions -- Fiction
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Fiction
• Pregnant women -- Fiction
• Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Percy is pregnant. She hasn't told a soul. Probably she should tell her husband--certainly she means to--but one night she wakes up to find she no longer recognizes him. Now, instead of sleeping, Percy is spending her nights taking walks through her neighborhood, all the while fretting over her marriage, her impending motherhood, and the sinister ways the city is changing. Amid this alienation--from her husband, home, and rapidly changing body--a package arrives. In it: an exhibition catalog for a photography show. The photographs consist of a series of digitally manipulated images of a woman lying on a bed in a red room. It takes a moment for even Percy to notice that the woman is herself . . . but no one else sees the resemblance. Percy must now come to grips with the fundamental question of identity in the digital age: To what extent do we own our own image, and to what extent is that image shaped by the eyes of others?

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult