This April, Pravum will release our second title, The Way Blood Travels by Oliver Slate-Greene. For updates join our mailing list.
About The Way Blood Travels: The Way Blood Travels is a story about a trans man whose disembodied youth compels him to leave a small town in Western Massachusetts. After rebuilding a 1969 Mustang and hitting the road, our narrator meets a prostitute from Detroit who introduces him to synthetic testosterone. As he transitions, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery and the body, the United States and all kinds of love. Marked by periods of intense wanderlust and domestic stagnancy, this story is a meditation on what connects us, and is told in a mesmerizing and hypnotic voice. The Way Blood Travels is as much about queerness and masculinity, as it is about reincarnation, magic and time.
About Oliver Slate-Greene: Oliver Slate-Greene is a surfer, poet, aspiring horseman, and lifelong student of esoterica. He’s a fourth generation New Yorker but is much more identified with his California life/style. He holds a master’s degree in psychology and works in brand. He is cat dad of two, both very naughty, whom he is completely devoted to. This is his first novel. You can read more about him on his website.
Also in stores:
Lesser Journeys - Dallie Ago
After witnessing the muse for her novels become a father with another woman, Dallie Ago, a published author and high-powered Engineer, attempts to conclude if her life is best lived becoming a mother, or living a story as dramatic as those in her books. Moving from New York to London for work, Dallie travels to Iceland, Lebanon, France and Serbia, visiting clients and discovering different outlooks on life while balancing a severe, chronic illness, which also provides Dallie with an unusual perspective on the body and time. During her journey, she learns to navigate corporate injustices, cultural differences and her own mortality.
Lesser Journeys is sharp as a razor, and pulses with the heart and sensuality of a fearless author in top form. Recommended for any reader who wishes they could find a random spot in a foreign country and end up drinking until dawn with Joan Didion. - Nathaniel Kressen (Author of Concrete Fever and Dahlia Cassandra)
Ago’s writing is so good you can taste the experience she’s having -Lisa Levy (Artist)
A gifted narrator. Ago’s descriptive language allows us to live every moment of a young woman’s journey into the world, while revealing the internal empowerment awakening within. - Ronna Lebo (Author of Prolapse, Co-founder, Off The Park Press / Black Square Editions, Artist)
One of the freshest, most vital voices to come out of young American literature - Ithamar Handelman-Smith (Author of The Unholy Land)