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Original Title:	Zazen
ISBN:	1935869051 (ISBN13: 9781935869054)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Della, Credence, Mirror
Literary Awards:	Oregon Book Award Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (2012), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2012)

Zazen

Vanessa Veselka

Paperback | Pages: 264 pages

Rating: 3.59 | 1251 Users | 237 Reviews

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Somewhere in Della’s consumptive, industrial wasteland of a city, a bomb goes off. It is not the first, and will not be the last.

Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della’s revolutionary parents welcome the upheaval but are trapped within their own insular beliefs. Her activist restaurant co-workers, who would rather change their identities than the world around them, resume a shallow rebellion of hair-dye, sex parties, and self-absorption. As those bombs keep inching closer, thudding deep and real between the sounds of katydids fluttering in the still of the city night, and the destruction begins to excite her. What begins as terror threats called in to greasy bro-bars across the block boils over into a desperate plot, intoxicating and captivating Della and leaving her little chance for escape.

Zazen unfolds as a search for clarity soured by irresolution and catastrophe, yet made vital by the thin, wild veins of imagination run through each escalating moment, tensing and relaxing, unfurling and ensnaring. Vanessa Veselka renders Della and her world with beautiful, freighting, and phantasmagorically intelligent accuracy, crafting from their shattered constitutions a perversely perfect mirror for our own selves and state.

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Title	:	Zazen
Author	:	Vanessa Veselka
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 264 pages
Published	:	May 22nd 2011 by Red Lemonade
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Novels. Speculative Fiction. Unfinished. Literary Fiction

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Ratings: 3.59 From 1251 Users | 237 Reviews

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There's some good writing in this, but it's painfully too long. Pretty much every character is repellent, and while it's clear that Veselka hasn't crafted them that way without purpose, it is very difficult to spend over 250 pages with them. The satire of crunchy granola activism gets strained and tired after about fifty pages too. I feel like this might have been a more effective short story.

Portlandia meets Children of Men for a third wave feminist Fight Club. Veselka excels at satirizing the escapist antics of organic radicals in an age of perceived U.S. decline. But in doing so, does she paint herself into a corner? The resolution - to make peace with our absurd and symptomatic reactions, to perhaps even love them - hazards a rescue of the titular stance from irony to the best mode of response. It is still easy to fall for Veselka's prose. The final lines stunned me. But I am

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.The writing in this book is unlike anything else I can think of. Veselka has her own style, her own voice. And its awesome.This book is like a constant panic attack. The tension chokes you. Della, our protagonist, is sharply observant and enjoyably critical of all these things in the world today. You know, tofu and de-caf and soy and vegan and yoga.The woman behind the counter was wearing a tank top that had Namaste! written across

[This review was originally published at The Nervous Breakdown.]From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.Karl MarxOne of the first books released by Red Lemonade, the visionary new press brought to life by ex-Soft Skull patriarch Richard Nash, Zazen by Vanessa Veselka is a powerful, political, sometimes humorous, often frightening portrait of a parallel world that lurks in the near future in all of its dystopian glory. Della is caught in an emotional battle, deciding

this is like a queer feminist fight club, a million times more complicated and interesting. i have not seen contemporary radical/anarchist politics handled so effectively in fiction, except in scifi, and i guess there's a touch of that here. this future is near, though. it's like, tomorrow. i am particularly impressed by how veselka sets up different ideological systems via character, with some systems/characters rendered unstable by della's limited knowledge and changing allegiances. people

This book smells so good. Like Wegmans and cologne. Too bad the copy I read is from the library.Going into this book, I didn't know exactly how weird it was going to be. It is very very weird.The world of Zazen is like ours but different. You could call it a parallel Earth, or a scary possible future earth. The main character, Della, lives in a world in which governments try to hide wars from the general public and bombs are constantly going off in the city. It is sort of a dystopian world, with

How timely: a consideration of the options and failures of the radical left in a dystopian political present. But Zazen was written five years ago, and given the actual dystopian present facing 2017, unstoppable capitalism, Wallmart, and ongoing overseas wars seem like a much more manageable menu of frustrations. And what to make of the actual progression? The novel opens with and is awash in the details of ineffective personal rebellions of young progressives: spelt, veganism, piercings, sex