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About the Book
Winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, Where Will We Live If the House Burns Down? is an unsettling poetic fairy tale based in a real-world marriage.
Straddling genres―prose poetry, micro memoir, fairy tale, autofiction―Where Will We Live If the House Burns Down? is first and foremost the story of a marriage. Borrowing elements from surrealist writers and artists, it explores the effects of chronic illness, disability, and a spouse’s gender transition. All of these issues swirl through the central marital relationship and the daily lives of its two lead characters, Sergeant and Grim―even as the book’s narrator, unreliable and unobjective, increasingly takes center stage. Reminiscent of writers like Sabrina Orah Mark and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, this book is as engrossing as it is experimental, traversing complicated domestic and emotional terrain by way of Allison Blevins’ vivid imagination.
Persea Books, 2026
Pieces from Black Hole Experiments for Ladies: Micro Essays were first published in The McNeese Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Five Points, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere.
Women are better suited for the exploration of black holes,” Allison Blevins writes at the opening of her lush, beautifully spare micro essay collection. Here black holes become synonymous with MRI images, with women condensing, with lives lived as experiments, knowing “any object will become a black hole if you crush it small.” Like a black hole, Blevins’ book is a compaction that holds universes in its borders—a rich and lyrically intricate voyage through a life.
—Susanne Paola Antonetta, author of The Devil’s Castle