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Fort Starlight
Author(s): Claudia Zuluaga (Author)
- Publisher: Engine Books
- Publication Date: October 26, 2020
- Language: English
- Print length: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 1938126130
- ISBN-13: 9781938126130
Book Description
Broke and stranded in a half-finished tract house in a swamp, Ida Overdorff discovers the strange community around her-a millionaire living in a tree house, two feral child theives. Ida clings to her dream of returning to New York while weathering storms both meteorological and emotional, and comes to understand that nobody’s luck-even hers-is all bad.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Sun-beaten stretches of wetlands, empty real estate dreams and a duplicitous developer bring together a mismatched cast of lost souls in Zuluaga’s entertaining debut. “Fort Starlight” is a moving story of half-recovered dreams and reconfigurations of pseudo-families, but Zuluaga’s prose is strongest when she writes about the intersections of nature and man in this strange pocket of Florida. -New York Times Book Review, Dec. 2013
From Publisher’s Weekly: “Zuluaga’s absorbing, expertly written debut explores the intersection of dreams and reality in the bizarre wilderness of Florida’s wetlands. Zuluaga’s portrayal of what happens to dreams deferred is beautifully executed.” (Sept.)
About the Author
Claudia Zuluaga’s fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Lost Magazine, JMWW, and Linnaean Street and was included in Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web series. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a fulltime Lecturer in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) in New York City.
