Bøger af Rainie Oet

"Its Robin's eighth birthday, and it seems like everyone has forgotten. But things take a sudden turn when the Cat-Headed Wanderer shows up and sweeps Robin away to a magical party in a fantastical treehouse. It's a joyful celebration full of song, dance, and newfound friends, but Robin soon realizes there's another reason they've been brought there. To uncover that reason, all Robin needs to do is walk through the half-open door in the back--but what lies behind?"--

"Glorious Veils of Diane is about the weird way children turn themselves inside out on the world, and a reimagining of the author's own childhood. Diane is an ever-changing archetype, a self-conscious child who's seen too many horror movies and is discovering, for the first time, her own blood. A child who thinks she is God, and who sees every person in her life as an extension of herself. A child who is possessed, beloved, and ignored. The book emerges through a chorus of voices belonging to Diane, the people around her, and Blood itself. At some point, Diane disappears. The book then investigates that disappearance, jumping back and forth through time, the physical world, and the spirit world. Ultimately, it suggests that Diane is not what is behind the veils; Diane is the veils"--

A book-length memoir in verse that follows the growing distance between poet, Rainie Oet, and his brother Mark over the course of several years around the time of their grandmother's death. Through its masterful craft and stunning attention to detail, Inside Ball Lightning attempts to reconcile terror and love, nostalgia and pain.