Bhang

A novella

A funeral in Brooklyn begins a chain of unpredictable, hallucinatory events.

"Bhang is a magical book. I loved Fried's journey with Anders and Sylvia, and the strange relation each had with the dead filmmaker Antoine, and the silence that steals over him as though he had just had sex, that unreal place of catching up. And I keep telling people about the drink that is so emotive that when you taste it, you can experience the emotion of the person who brews it up. I get just such sensual DNA from this book."

- Kevin Killian, author of Fascination: Memoirs

"If John Cheever had done psychedelics he might have ended up with Bhang. The casual easiness of the voice coupled with the strangeness of the experience described ends up being unexpected and disarming."

- Brian Evenson, author of Last Days

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BlazeVOX Books, 2004.