Hi friends.
I’m excited to announce that my first novel, DONNAVILLE, is now out from Indolent Books, and you can order it here:
https://www.indolentbooks.com/donnaville/
DONNAVILLE is set in “the city of my mind,” where all the characters except for my partner and one “visitor” character are parts of me. The city is outwardly verdant and pleasant — attractive to tourists — but like many towns in upstate New York, where I live, it is dominated by a hidden, central prison most residents prefer not to think about. Some of the characters run the prison, while others are trying to burn the place down. (A third group , of course, are incarcerated there.) Each and every one of them are parts of me!
Novelist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore said about the book: “Part anti-prison fable, part gory horror camp, part dyke Goddess gay porn, DONNAVILLE shocks the senses to open the gates between myth and belonging. This is the abusive family narrative turned inside-out, vomiting up the possibility of survival. Tender and grotesque, DONNAVILLE frees the self of its burdens.”
And Washington Post columnist Steven Petrow said: “Not an allegory but a wild romp of a fantasy story that takes the reader on a journey to the most forbidden recesses of the psyche, and the most hopeful ones… Donna Minkowitz’s debut novel DONNAVILLE invents a whole new way of talking about the internal struggles we all face. … Minkowitz narrates a harrowing personal journey toward wholeness and a state in which no parts of her may be abandoned to self-torture and shame. A very queer, very sexy novel, where the author assumes all genders and many different sexualities, and where riotous sex scenes can be the occasion of important plot points. I’ve long loved Minkowitz’s work. DONNAVILLE is one more reason to be grateful to this fearless author who sheds all skins.”
If you do me a favor and preorder now, it will help me and my publisher a lot! Again, you can do that here:
https://www.indolentbooks.com/donnaville/
And save the date for my New York City launch event — Thursday, October 17 at the Bureau of General Services — Queer Division. Or for my Hudson Valley launch event, Friday, October 25 at Stanza Books in Beacon!
Thank you so much —
Donna
