VN Alexander’s “gut-wrenching” and “beautifully written” 2003 novel is now available as an audiobook, read by the author. Listen to a sample on Spotify.
Synopsis: When Hali’s father asks her to help him end his life to spare his wife the misery of a long illness, she reluctantly agrees. While family and friends in the Bible Belt insists on letting “God’s will” decide such matters, Hali broods upon the idea of predetermination and an afterlife in a way that is both challenging and deeply moving. Ultimately, she is unable to do what her father wishes, and she is forced to accept the help of a manipulative male nurse, adding further complications that result in a slow and painful end.
The audiobook of Naked Singularity is now available on all platforms, including Spotify, Overdrive (for libraries), Apple, Google Play, Kobo, StoryTel (in Sweden), Hoopla, Barnes & Noble and Amazon’s Audible.
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Reviews for the 2003 hardcover edition:
“Best of 2003: Best Locally Produced Literary Figure” –Dallas Observer
“A painful tale about euthanasia. The emotions are raw at times, but there’s a cool tone of postmodern post-mortem throughout as well, raising hackles and sympathy from first to last.” –Kirkus Reviews
“Alexander takes on a gut-wrenching topic and writes eloquently about the family’s daily emotional pain, leading up to a lurid, macabre ending and a climax that is so true, it is barely believable.” –Publishers Weekly
“At once deeply intellectual and extremely sensual” –Ethical Culture Review
“Beautifully written” –Texas Books in Review
“Alexander takes the reader down an intriguing road loaded with questions and choices, none of them easy…. Naked Singularity is sad, touching and heartfelt, a taut story about love and living, pain and dying.” –Curled up with a Good Book Review
“Woven into Naked Singularity‘s metaphors and narrative is a profound understanding of chaos and complexity. It renders esoteric constructs concrete, and in a setting none of us can escape.” –J. P. Crutchfield, co-author of “Chaos,” Scientific American.
The hardcover edition was originally published by The Permanent Press in 2003. The print versions, hardcover or paperback, is available at any bookstore.
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Local readers, If you are a member of Hudson Valley Current, you can order a signed hardcover first-edition for $25 or a $15 signed paperback.