The Strange Case of Rachel K SS_Gift_Guide slowly but steadily sliding toward

slowly but steadily sliding toward the death they once denied

Blending the country and folk music of the late sixties with the melodic seductiveness of Detroit-style roots rock

cover artwork by Leo and Diane Dillon

and her niece and two nephews—in danger

was more valuable than gold—for the benefit of European powers and at the expense of the islands’ sacred ecologies

The Strange Case of Rachel K SS_Gift_Guide slowly but steadily sliding towardNow in paperback, three early stories about myth, power, and sex by the acclaimed author of The Flamethrowers The three pieces gathered in The Strange Case of Rachel K roughly map the genesis of Rachel Kushners fiction. From the fate of a conquistador in The Great Exception, to the illegal radio broadcasts and then bombs in Debouchment, to a Havana courtesans strange case, these stories build into a vision of Cuba that is black humored, brutal, and