Set during the year following the September 11 attacks, Self Storage explores the raw insecurities of a changed society. With lush writing, great humor, and a genuine heart, Gayle Brandeis takes a peek into the souls of a woman and a community–and reveals that it is not our differences that drive us apart but our willful concealment of the 4/5(1). Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne) and the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins), which won the Bellwether Prize for Fiction of Social Engagement (judged by Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, and contest founder Barbara Kingsolver), Self Storage (Ballantine), Delta Girls (Ballantine), and My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt)/5. “The personal and political collide in Gayle Brandeis’s complex and witty new novel, Self Storage. Like the flashlight Flan shines into storage lockers to find treasure, Brandeis’s novel illuminates the way we define our loved ones, our neighbors, and ourselves.” Amanda Eyre Ward. author of How to Get Lost.
Of course. I could celebrate my self-storage auctions. That is something I think I could do. This is how the auctions work. Excerpted from Self Storage by Gayle Brandeis. 8. Self-Storage / Gayle Brandeis 9. This Time Together / Carol Burnett The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay / Chabon A Discovery of Witches / Deborah Harkness The Hypnotist's Love Story / Liane Moriarty Shadow of Night / 2nd book of trilogy Deborah Harkness Book of Life / 3d book of trilogy Deborah Harkness Self-Storage units can abound with the mysterious and the inexplicable, full of stuff and more stuff. Just ask the sprightly and agile Flan Parker, the central protagonist in Gayle Brandeis' new novel Self Storage who spends much of her life furrowing amongst these units, making a living for herself and for her family from the detritus and accumulation of other people's possessions.
Gayle Brandeis (born Ap in Chicago, Illinois) is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne), Dictionary Poems (Pudding House Publications), the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins), which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change, Self Storage and Delta Girls (), and her first novel. “The personal and political collide in Gayle Brandeis’s complex and witty new novel, Self Storage. Like the flashlight Flan shines into storage lockers to find treasure, Brandeis’s novel illuminates the way we define our loved ones, our neighbors, and ourselves.” Amanda Eyre Ward. author of How to Get Lost. An agreeable, if somewhat routine, novel of a young woman attempting to bring order and meaning to her life, from the author of The Book of Dead Birds ().. Flan (short for Flannery) has an unusual occupation—she attends auctions at self-storage units, buying the contents of the unpaid lock-ups.
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