Draining the Sea

by Marcom, Micheline Aharonian

• ISBN13: 9781594483554
• ISBN10: 1594483558
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-03
• Publisher: Riverhead Trade

Summary

The extraordinary new novel from the winner of the: 2004 Lannan Literary Fellowship 2005 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction 2006 Whiting Writers’ Award A new work of obsession, tragedy, and the unpredictable trajectories of the heart.”(Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban) A powerful testament about the far-reaching effects of political brutality and lost love, Draining the Seasifts through the incongruities of history and memory, unfurling inside the mind of a man who spends his days driving the streets of Los Angeles, racked by visions of the Guatemalan Civil War and, in particular, of Marta, a beautiful young prostitute who died violently in it—a tragedy in which he himself may have played a role.

Author Biography

Micheline Aharonian Marcom was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1968 to an American father and an Armenian-Lebanese mother, and grew up in Los Angeles. She now teaches creative writing at Mills College.