![]() You’re the first person to ask me this question! I think that as awful as crises are, they tell you so much about people, the world they live in, the options available to them, their life paradigm, religiosity, spirituality, and cultural worldview, not to mention their coordinates on the selfishness/altruism scale. To begin, why was hurricane Sandy the focal point of the novel? More than anything, Amnesia of June Bugs calls us to rethink who we are as people when conflict or disaster strikes. The characters get stuck in the subway, awaiting their next move, their lives changed forever. The novel’s climax occurs as Hurricane Sandy approaches the Eastern seaboard. ![]() Not only does the city become a separate character in this novel, but as readers, we learn about people in the margins whose stories tend to be neglected in mainstream culture and the literary imaginary. ![]() ![]() In this interview, Nidhi Shrivastava and Bliss discuss Amnesia of June Bugs, Jackson’s moving, genre-bending, and experimental debut novel set in New York City about four BIPOC characters. ![]() Jackson Bliss is the winner of the 2020 Noemi Press Award in Prose and the mixed race/HAPA author of Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments (Noemi Press, 2021), Amnesia of June Bugs (7.13 Books, 2022), Dream Pop Origami (Unsolicited Press, 2022), and the speculative hypertext, Dukkha, My Love (2017). ![]()
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