Dahlia's Iris

"Leslie Scalapino's writing reveals how far language--and therefore thought itself--can go beyond what we are accustomed to, and the forms in which she writes delightfully defy our expectations. Yet her work is infused with a seriousness, a passion, a timeliness, and an intelligence with which we profoundly identify. A new book by Leslie Scalapino is--always!--cause for celebration." --Lydia Davis, author of Samuel Johnson is Indignant

"When Detective Grace Abe in San Francisco discovers the body of a boy who has fallen from the tenth floor of a building, questions of crime, the material world and received perception are let fly as never before. Forensics of soul and city. Pursuit of justice. Dahlia's Iris is a one-of-a-kind work of genius and daring. It exists in a celestial sphere of its own making like a comet that only exists by shattering the invisible warps that are in its path." --Fanny Howe, author of Gone

"What delight I find in this amazing novel. I was so moved as I read the final page I wept. This is a masterpiece of multi-dimensions, a wonderous thought experiment that implies the grand unifying theory will be written by a poet or novelist, not a mathematician." --Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Gardens in the Dunes