paperback, 382 pages
Published Feb. 29, 2020 by Apocalypse Party.
"Like smoke off a collision between Dennis Cooper’s George Miles Cycle and Beyond The Black Rainbow, absorbing the energy of mind control, reincarnation, parallel universes, altered states, school shootings, obsession, suicidal ideation, and so much else, B.R. Yeager’s multi-valent voicing of drugged up, occult youth reveals fresh tunnels into the gray space between the body and the spirit, the living and the dead, providing a well-aimed shot in the arm for the world of conceptual contemporary horror." —Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million
“Ever wonder where teenage children go at night? Perhaps it’s best not knowing the answer. There’s something amiss in Kinsfield, a drab, boring city much like your own, except for the teenage suicide epidemic, stagnant, ineffectual parents, cultish behavior that borders on psychosis, and strings, strings everywhere. B.R. Yeager’s Negative Space is a hypnotic collage of message boards, memes, and ruined bodies twisting at the end …
"Like smoke off a collision between Dennis Cooper’s George Miles Cycle and Beyond The Black Rainbow, absorbing the energy of mind control, reincarnation, parallel universes, altered states, school shootings, obsession, suicidal ideation, and so much else, B.R. Yeager’s multi-valent voicing of drugged up, occult youth reveals fresh tunnels into the gray space between the body and the spirit, the living and the dead, providing a well-aimed shot in the arm for the world of conceptual contemporary horror." —Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million
“Ever wonder where teenage children go at night? Perhaps it’s best not knowing the answer. There’s something amiss in Kinsfield, a drab, boring city much like your own, except for the teenage suicide epidemic, stagnant, ineffectual parents, cultish behavior that borders on psychosis, and strings, strings everywhere. B.R. Yeager’s Negative Space is a hypnotic collage of message boards, memes, and ruined bodies twisting at the end of a rope. Most modern novels have lost all concept of magic. B.R. Yeager’s Negative Space is a stunning refutation of the quotidian.” —James Nulick, author of Haunted Girlfriend & Valencia
I don't know quite how to convey this book. A totally weird, totally disturbing read. I enjoyed it a lot, tho the last hour or so dragged a bit. There's no real 'resolution' either, but I'm not mad about it because it's the nature of the whole weird tale. Bizarre like a long acid trip! WHORL*
I rushed through it because it was reading like a lot of words with little development and little interest of making sense to the reader.
It's not that it's badly written, it's readable, but the violence and plentiness of it feel ultimately pointless.
This was very readable, but I was not enjoying the story events. It was kind of chaotic and had a lot of repetitive types of scenes. I’d have preferred more drawn out moments that really established character personalities and relationships. It has more of a vignette feel because of the POV shifts, which was not working for me.
