Life / Insurance

winner of the Fugere Book prize from Regal House

a collage artist piecing together a life, a composer unable to talk,
and an interrogation into art and existence in New York City

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That Night Alive

winner of the novella prize from Miami University Press

half futuristic fiction and half meditative memoir

“Beautifully paced, That Night Alive records a woman’s yearning to make something lasting in a post-apocalyptic world of surveillance and subterfuge where genuine art is forbidden. Tara Deal’s ambitious, inventive, continually surprising, and finely etched novella immerses us in a woman’s struggles and rewards the most close and attentive reading.”

—Lee Upton, author of The Tao of Humiliation

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