Minnows: A Shattered Novel

Minnows: A Shattered NovelMinnows: A Shattered Novel was built by hand before it was written down. Jonathan Lyons cut his draft into blocks and columns, pinned the fragments across the walls of his basement, and reassembled the exploded narrative into a unified whole. The subtitle is the method: a shattered novel, put back together so the seams stay visible. What the pieces reassemble into is the story of two brothers whose summer is detonated by trauma. The cut up does not

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