The Book of Scab

Author: Danielle Pafunda

Publisher: Ricochet Editions (2018)

The Book of Scab is a lyrical, epistolary fiction/memoir written from the disabled artifact's perspective, unraveling the abjection of youth and its post-Freudian family myths. It takes embodied place during the slow decline of white supremacist heteronormative corporate oligarchy. Scab is a chronically ill teenage girl, through whom all the most toxic and beautiful elements of a culture flow. Her letters are essays, manifestos, and diary entries. The arc of the project follows Scab as she works to escape her abusive, bourgeois parents (culture)––an escape that must be both physical and psychic, and is probably doomed from the outset. The Book of Scab opens at a psychedelic music festival and ends in the room where beauty's mask was worn.