Sleep and dust

Sleepless (Pas Dormir in the original French), a book that is – what? A memoir/interrogation/painting/song of insomnia, her own and that of others. It’s a book about where, why, how we sleep and don’t sleep; about how to find a place in the world where sleep can happen, a stable for the worn-out horse. Samantha Harvey, The Guardian 

Sleepless è edito da Fitzcarrald, mentre l'originale francese da Folio. L'autrice è Marie Darrieussec.

Owens’s own fascination with dust started as a student in 2008, when she contemplated the sisyphean task of housekeeping. (“I was neither balding nor scrofulous … where was this material come from?”) But her journey doesn’t actually begin until 2015, with a road trip through California. Owens is transfixed and outraged by the story of Los Angeles, whose growth and modern existence was only possible through the systematic and outrageous theft of water and the creation of a dust desert to the east. Oliver Franklin-Wallis, The Guardian

Dust di Jay Owens è pubblicato da Hodder & Stoughton.