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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Hex
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Blackman, Sarah
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Fantasy fiction.
  genre: Ghost stories.
  genre: Fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: alu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 344 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "Alice is a motherless child, born to a motherless child, and raised with neither care nor grace. Her response to this multiple abandonment is a lifelong obsession with her best friend Ingrid, or Thingy, as Alice calls her, and a sort of fantastic narcissism wherein she figures herself as the nexus of a supernatural world she understands through a blend of mountain lore, indigenous Cherokee legend, and the dangerous idiom of the fairy-tale girl who enters the forest despite being warned. The novel is written in blended parts and is crafted as an address to Thingy's daughter, Ingrid the Second, who is now in Alice's care. Alice attempts to tell Ingrid the story of her life: her friendship with Thingy; her troubled relationships with her father, a small-town sexual troubadour; her stepmother, a hard-minded business woman who treats all interactions as commerce; her marriage to her husband Jacob, a silent figure of tremendous will; and her growing suspicion that Ingrid is another girl-child around whom disaster accumulates. Simultaneously, Alice tells the child the kind of bedtime stories she herself has used to make sense of her world. For Alice, and thus in Hex, the line between fantasy and reality is nonexistent, the mountain is older than its geology, and the world a limbo in which everything that has ever happened is coming around again. Hex is a novel about violence--the violence of the fist, of the womb, of the story. It is also a novel about language and how we use it to build a world when the one we find around us is irretrievably broken. "--
  abstract: "Hex is a novel set in Western North Carolina that features a character named Alice Small and her deceased friend Ingrid, whom Alice calls "Thingy." Alice is raising Thingy's daughter, Ingrid the Second, and tells her stories that comprise the novel's narrative, which explores themes of love, friendship, fear, greed, and broken or reinvented histories"--
  note: Sarah Blackman.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-nc
  subject:
    topic: Cherokee Indians
    geographic: North Carolina, Western
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Folklore
    geographic: North Carolina, Western
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Tales
    geographic: North Carolina, Western
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Storytelling
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / General
  subject:
    topic: Cherokee Indians
  subject:
    topic: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: Storytelling
  subject:
    topic: Tales
  subject:
    geographic: North Carolina, Western
  classification: PS3602.L325298 H49 2016
  classification: 813/.6
  classification: FIC000000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Hex
    name:
      name part: Blackman, Sarah, 1980- author.
    origin info:
      publisher: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : FC2, 2016
    identifier: (DLC) 2016000365
  identifier: 9781573660563
  identifier: 1573660566
  identifier: 2015047549
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160104
    record change date: 20170927134720.0
    record identifier: in00003771859
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng