The Stories of Devil-Girl de Anya Achtenberg

The Stories of Devil-Girl

Anya Achtenberg

Anya Anchtenberg

Devil-Girl is a storyteller smaller than a stain and larger than life, a mythic figure roaming the globe. Born into Brooklyn housing projects and the nightmares of her immigrant family, she becomes a runaway in the human marketplace of the streets of New York. Accompanied by her sense of outrage and sense of humor, ghosts of the ancestors and her prophetic vision, she moves from silence through rage into deep alliance with the marginalized.

"Poignant and fierce, this book is moving,beautifully written, and urgently relevant."

"Devil-Girl's stories are all of our stories, all ofthe 'discarded and demonized', all of us whohave had to fight to survive, to fight to tell ourtruths. Achtenberg's wise survivor, Devil-Girl,is witness and seer, and her words are sustenance.There is much pain in this book, muchwisdom, and a kind of beauty that sears itselfinto memory, a fierce beauty that is as necessaryas air. Read this book."
-Lisa D. Chave, Author of Destruction Bay; In An Angry Season

"Achtenberg is a cutting-edge voice in the literature of the postglobalizationage, an era in which we are uprooted geographicallyand spiritually, and redefining what it means to be home.What a superbly written book! Read it and be changed."
-Demetria Martinez, Author of Mother Tongue

"Stunning and original! Powerful 'make it new' language thatcreates-through the runaway energy and precise detail of thestorytelling voice-a disturbing world in all its particularities,only to transcend it by grappling with what's at stake in thelarger world."
-Stratis Haviaras, Founder and former editor of Harvard Review

"An amazing piece of bravura writing! Devil-Girl takes us fromdestitution to seedy glamour as a homeless vulnerable youngwoman tries to survive the savagery of the streets. Poignant andfierce, this book is moving, beautifully written, and urgently relevant."
-Kathleen Spivack, Author, Director: Advanced Writing Workshop

Book #1 in the Reflections of America Series
Learn about the author at www.AnyaAchtenberg.com
Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com
an imprint of Loving Healing Press

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Anya Achtenberg is an award¿winning fiction writer and poet. Her recently completed novel, More Than The Wind, was excerpted in Harvard Review. Her second book of poetry, The Stone of Language, was published in 2004 by West End Press. Her stories have received awards from Coppola's Zoetrope: All¿Story, New Letters, the Asheville Fiction Writers Workshop, the Raymond Carver Story Contest and others. She received a 2008 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant for work on History Artist, a novel¿in¿progress, centering on Devi Mau, a Cambodian woman born of anAfrican¿American father at the moment the bombing of Cambodia began. She is working on a book to turn her multi¿genre course, Writing for Social Change: Re¿Dream a Just World, into a moveable workshop. She has taught creative writing at universities and colleges, for writers' organizations, with drop¿out youth, working adults, and in the public schools. She teaches independent workshops throughout the country and online, on essential elements of story in fiction and memoir; deepening characterization; autobiography and autobiographical fiction; and writing for social change. She offers manuscript consultations in fiction, poetry, and memoir. Visit her website Writing Story / Finding Poetry / Freeing Voice: Swimming through the ocean of language at www.Anya-Achtenberg.com