{"id":61122,"date":"2021-10-11T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61122"},"modified":"2021-10-11T18:23:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:23:28","slug":"counterfactual-love-stories-other-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61122","title":{"rendered":"Counterfactual Love Stories &#038; Other Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noemipress.org\/catalog\/prose\/counterfactual-love-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Counterfactual Love Stories &amp; Other Experiments<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noemipress.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noemi Press<\/a><br \/>2021-10-01<br \/>Paperback ISBN: 978-1-934819-97-5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonbliss.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jackson Bliss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noemipress.org\/catalog\/prose\/counterfactual-love-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.noemipress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Counterfactual-Love-Stories-scaled.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From fragmented ransom notes to hanging footnotes, contemporary fairy tales to coded text, interconnecting pieces of modal <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_fiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flash fiction<\/a> to backwards fractal narratives about gradual blindness, transgressive <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Listicle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listicles<\/a> to how-to guides for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Performative_activism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">performative wokeness<\/a>, variable destinies in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Loop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downtown Chicago<\/a> to impossible dating applications, counterfactual relationships to the French translation of adolescence, the conceptual, language-driven short stories in <em>Counterfactual Love Stories &amp; Other Experiments<\/em> are an exploration of not just mixed-race\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hapa<\/a> identity in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan<\/a> (and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midwestern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Midwest<\/a>), but also of the infinite ways in which stories can be told, challenged, celebrated, and subverted.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conceptual, language-driven short stories in &#8220;Counterfactual Love Stories &#038; Other Experiments&#8221; are an exploration of not just mixed-race\/hapa identity in Michigan (and the American Midwest), but also of the infinite ways in which stories can be told, challenged, celebrated, and subverted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,20],"tags":[3027,5488,26564,5754,31648],"class_list":["post-61122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-chicago","tag-illinois","tag-jackson-bliss","tag-michigan","tag-noemi-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61822,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61122\/revisions\/61822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}