· Vanessa Veselka (Portland, OR) has been at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a musician, a union organizer, and a student of paleontology. Her work appears in GQ, Bitch, The Atlantic, Tin House, Zyzzyva and Best American Essays. Her novel Zazen won the PEN / . · Vanessa Veselka has written an engaging, touching book in Zazen, one that leaves the reader saddened by the unnecessary loss and destruction. But there is still a grain of hope buried in the ash a unique and lasting work of art.3/4(8). Such is Vanessa Veselka’s iconoclastic debut novel Zazen. It is a work that not only challenges world views, but one that pushes you through to the other side—through the prison bars of Old Honduras—where everyday injustices, as seen on a shopping /5.
Zazen by Vanessa Veselka not only grants us access to this unexpected point of view, but also creates a world where uprisings and escape seem futile, despite fashionable interest in them.. Zazen. Free download or read online Zazen pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in May 22nd , and was written by Vanessa Veselka. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this fiction, science fiction story are Della, Credence. Zazen is her first novel. A special not Vanessa Veselka is a writer and musician living in Portland, Oregon. She has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, a student of paleontology, an expatriate, an independent record label owner, a train-hopper, a waitress, and a mother.
The following is excerpted from Vanessa Veselka's debut novel, Zazen. Veselka is the author of the novel The Great Offshore Grounds, which won the Oregon Book Awards' Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the National Book Award and the novel Zazen, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex worker, a union organizer, an independent record label owner, a train hopper, a waitress, and a mother. Vaenessa Veselka's Zazen (Red Lemonade) dives bravely into plot, with the author's gymnastics reserved for language that soars and swirls in waves, reminiscent at times of Thomas Pynchon at his most accessible and Tom Robbins at his most fanciful. In simplest jacket-copy rendering, Zazen, by Vanessa Veselka and released recently from Cursor/Red Lemonade, is the story of a young woman’s attempt to come to terms with the world around her, even as it seems to fall to pieces itself. The narrator, Della Mylinek, is a twenty-seven-year-old paleontologist-cum-waitress, slinging tofu scrambles in a vegetarian restaurant called Rise Up Singing.
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