Stella Atlantis (Vivienne Pink)

By: Susan Perly

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Synopsis: When novelist Johnny Coma's daughter comes back from the dead as a talking octopus, will he finally be able to write her story? Will his estranged wife, renowned war photographer Vivienne Pink, even believe him? In Stella Atlantis, the stunning follow-up to her visionary desert novel, Death Valley, Giller Prize–nominated author Susan Perly returns to the lives of these two troubled artists, who are haunted by the death of their young daughter, Stella. Moving in and out of Toronto, Amsterdam and Barcelona, across the Mediterranean to Ibiza and out to the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, Perly's prose enacts grieving itself in the twinned stories of Johnny and Vivienne. Playfully dark and filled with beautiful flights of imagery, this is a story of fathers and daughters, of love lost and love reborn, of the redemptive power of art, the transformative power of the sea and how we can dare to reach for radiance and redemption.