A poetic roman a clef, gauguin's notebook follows an anonymous protagonist who keeps a diary while reading through Paul Gauguin's Tahiti as he travels clandestinely across the U.S. Mexico border and in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. What begins as a search for a strange angel quickly descends into the mire of Internet forums, where narco terror, soldier porn, and blue stars give the impression that amid forced immigration and self-exile there's also something searing, tragic, and funny when what you love gets irrevocably lost.
The winner of the 2015 Madeleine P. Plonsker...