American Fictions - Paperback

by C. P. Serret (Author)

The war is over, but it's in the way of Ellie's future. Music is everything, but she can only play piano within the silenced walls of a padded room. The war is over, but America isn't safe, Mother says, no place is safe...

Abandoned, 11-year-old Ismael Canul is a case number in the System. The empty people didn't want him, but he's surrounded by them everywhere...

Collected for the first time in a single volume, Serret's Playing God and Never Human bracket the close of the Long Twentieth Century, confronting the coloniality of voice, indigenous and immigrant anomie, and the struggle for identity from the Cold War to the uncertain near future.