Disquiet Drive
Hesse K.
Pilot Press, Jan 2024
Disquiet Drive accomplishes what few ‘experimental’ novels truly do—it challenges form and narrative authority and the reader. In other words, it’s original. This book is a scrapbook of a life, an I, which is split by circumstance. In the same vein of Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, K. has created a polyphonic and at times hallucinatory meditation on language and how it is embodied.
Jesi Bender is an artist from Upstate New York. She is the author of the novels Rhododendron (forthcoming 2027), Child of Light, and The Book of the Last Word; the plays Crux and Kinderkrankenhaus; and the poetry collection Dangerous Women. Her shorter writing has appeared in FENCE, Denver Quarterly, Sleepingfish, and others. www.jesibender.com