Bhopal Dance

"In this beautiful, twisty, entertaining, moral, horrific, angry novel, our cultural amnesia isn't just a major theme—it's an antagonist, a monstrous enemy that must be overcome. If we can't remember, [ . . .] we'll never learn."
—Seattle Review of Books

“No one anywhere on the planet can arrange language, history, memory, and the bodies of women in more intense and intimate orchestration than Jennifer Natalya Fink does in Bhopal Dance. Between desire and cultural inscription arise bodies that refuse to be bound by the rules and laws set out for them. Let the novel be undone by bodysong and language meat.”
—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan

“This new novel continues Jennifer Natalya Fink's raucous narrative style, a style both ecstatic and cutting. She and about five to nine other Bad White Girls have evolved a literary method of attack on Americans (like themselves, double irony) who can’t quite shuck the dream of something good that will cure their shock at being here. They try revolution and it backfires and lands them in jail, where freedom gurgles in the mouth of a toilet bowl. This book takes the conundrum to an explosive level. The pages burn with sex and toxic car-time, Union Carbide and ruined Bhopal. No reconciliations offered.”
—Fanny Howe, author of The Needles’ Eye: Passing through Youth

 “Youth, bad romance, intellectual idealism, and the very big question of how to respond to the bigger nightmares we face on earth—Jennifer Natalya Fink gets deep into the muck of it, with sly humor and fierce intelligence, a conscience, a soul, and a gift for exploding what we think it is to tell a story.”
—Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave