Freezing Persons

About the Book

Freezing Persons is an urban fable of self-discovery that brings us home, not to the fraud of milk and cookies, but to the unlikely places where only true emotional craving can be satisfied. Lily arrives at Port Authority with a bloodstained knife and a photograph of a dead body. Numb and amnesic, she is taken in and resuscitated by a motley cast of fugitives and misfits. There's Nona, who collects men, "Have You Seen Me" postcards, and a freezer full of mysterious paper bags; Ariel, a lovelorn psychic; Rhonda, a cocker spaniel who loves Joni Mitchell; Alyse, a philosophical stripper addicted to plastic surgery; Jordan, a gorgeous bed-wetter; and the Smallest Woman in the World.  Lily is on the run from something heinous. With a wig, sunglasses and the city itself as part of her disguise, she journeys through an underground world searching for redemption. What she encounters is horrifying, hilarious and at times humiliating. Mysteries unravel and despite her best efforts, she begins to remember, feel, and understand all that she has hidden from.  Past, present and dream weave into a graphic story about what happens when people press against each other raw and are finally seen. When their defenses melt, freezing persons come to life, vulnerable, totally beautiful, and changed forever.

About the Author

Laura Feldman grew up in Merrick, New York. She received her BA in English literature from the University of Michigan and her MFA from the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Co. She has her MSW from Smith College and lives in New York City. This is her first novel.