Impossibility of Crows

Kirsten Kaschock, a Pew Fellow in the Arts and Summer Literary Seminars grand prize winner, is the author of one previous novel, Sleight, and six poetry collections: Unfathoms, A Beautiful Name for a Girl, The Dottery, Confessional Science-fiction: A Primer, Explain This Corpse (Lynx House Press), and AutoPortrait (as flotsam).

• 1. An Experience of Crows2. A Library of Crows3. A Blot of Crows4. An Ecstasy of Crows5. An Utterance of Crows6. A Development of Crows7. A Confidence of Crows8. A Fastening of Crows9. A Hazard of Crows10. A Solitude of CrowsAcknowledgments

"An Impossibility of Crows is a mesmerizing and wholly original novel that scratched an itch I didn't even know I had. Ominous, profound and compulsively readable, a Gothic novel written in crystalline prose. A flat-out knockout."—Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author"A text of baleful beauty, like its monster, this book is somehow both achingly tender and ruthlessly unsentimental—and about the most sentimentalised aspects of our sadistic culture, too."—China Miéville, author of Perdido Street Station"An Impossibility of Crows is, itself, impossibly lyric and ambitious, an Iliad of parenting, of ambivalence, self-sacrifice and care. A divorce-poem and a tale of scientific obsession—tragic, feminist and sublime as Shelley's Frankenstein, but quick-paced, wry and gorgeous for the 21st century."—Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox and Night Night Fawn"This book is an intensely moving exploration of the way we risk everything we have for the ones we love and still get it wrong. Agnes and Solo will power my heart for a long time. Every sentence of this novel gives more than I thought possible."—Jac Jemc, author of Empty Theatre and The Grip of It