Season of the Rat
In Los Angeles, a rat skitters across a woman’s roof and into her psyche, prompting an obsessive investigation of her lost memories, a forgotten history of gay bars and group sex, socialist colonies and rent, rape, and the transgression of true romance. From the author of the cult classic, I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris, comes a mysterious meditation steeped in sex and the high style of Hollywood noir: Elizabeth Hall’s SEASON OF THE RAT.
Advance Praise
I'm terrified of rats, but I was still captivated by Season of the Rat—a hypnotic meditation on memory, obsession, and the ghosts that haunt Los Angeles. I may never buy into the romance of rat life, but I’m fully sold on Elizabeth Hall’s seductive, sun-bleached vision. –Anna Dorn, author of Perfume and Pain
The romance of rat life is the romance of Elizabeth Hall’s arresting, rapturous Season of the Rat — a true billetdoux to animals, precarious communities, and reading as a way of being. Who else but Elizabeth Hall could bring such eroticism to ecocriticism or write sentences as lush and libidinous, carved and charmed as these? Hall is a singular noticer: rat laughter, bougainvillea spangles, leather chaps. I want to read with her always. This is a murine-sized masterpiece. -JoAnna Novak, author of Contradiction Days and I Must Have You.
There is a quiet, controlled dignity in Hall's writing. She is never pretentious, always precise, unexpected, and thoroughly thoughtful. Her voice comforts even when the subject chills. I didn't want this book to end. - Charlotte Shane, author of An Honest Woman and Prostitute Laundry
I'm almost charmed
I'm almost charmed
New Work
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Interview with Elizabeth Hall by Aiden Brown for XRAY Mag
“Research is an escape in some ways. You get to live in another world… research made me feel so alive. I’d wake up in the morning at like 5am (I’m an insomniac) and the sun would be shining—California sun, you know, every day. It was so beautiful, and I could travel to the sixth century or something and it felt crazy, and that made me really happy.”
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Essay on Ellen van Neerven's Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity for Full Stop
“Personal Score’s great win is its injection of potential into the world of sports. By wanting more from the games they love, van Neerven pries open possibilities for what play can be.”
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Interview with Charlotte Shane by Elizabeth Hall for Full Stop
“An Honest Woman offers readers something more potent than exposure: a close-up take of how care can look and feel in the many different kinds of relationships open to us. Is there a better gift a book can give?”
ABOUT
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Hall is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. She is the author of the books, Season of the Rat (Cash 4 Gold Books) and I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist.
