A mother and grown daughter travel through Tokyo and their memories, both shared and secret. The silences and gaps between the lives of those with whom we share the most are universal and profound, and gently turned over by Au in this slim and lovely novel.
— KatIn this hybrid poem about militarized drones and militant angels, Elizabeth abandons her career as a physicist to become a museum administrator, finds god in the basement below the galleries, and dies there. But that is not the end.
A virtuoso blend of form and genre, ELIZABETH/THE STORY OF DRONE takes readers on a journey through terrain in which the personal and the political collide.