A Brief History of Yes

By Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Micheline Marcom describes her newest novel, A Brief History of Yes--her first since 2008's scathing and erotic The Mirror in the Well--as a literary fado, referring to a style of Portuguese music that, akin to the American blues, is often melancholic and soulful, and encapsulates the feeling of saudade--meaning, loosely, yearning and nostalgia for something or someone irreparably lost. A Brief History of Yes tells the story of the break-up between a Portuguese woman named Maria and an unnamed American man: it is a collage-like, fragmentary novel whose form perfectly captures the workings of attraction and grief, proving once again that American literature has no better poet of love and loss than Micheline Aharonian Marcom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564788490
• ISBN13: 9781564788498
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher