Failure to Comply
Failure to Comply
a novel by [sarah] Cavar
COming August 6, 2024!
All print orders of this book will come with free digital files: .epub for e-readers, and an e-book PDF
Cavar's Failure to Comply is an abolitionist text concerned with trans, disabled, and Mad liberation as a speculative art…
Every story has its fugitives. “I,” a deviant self-hacker with three arms, two stomachs, and no name, is on the run from RSCH, a high-tech, authoritarian government that mandates wellness and carves the contours of truth itself. When I is kidnapped at axe-point to be mined for forbidden memories, they must struggle against RSCH’s medical abuse to recapture their history, reunite with their lover, and rewrite their future—or risk remaining Patient forever.
I crosses an epistolary, time-flipped dreamscape as they recollect their memories from RSCH’s hungry archive, and, in the process, write the story of their liberation.
Size: 6”x9”
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781943888290
Publication date: August 6, 2024
Praise for CAVAR
“Cavar deftly guides readers [back] into their bodies, ensnaring them in empathy. No need to have experienced ableism to understand its full horror, Cavar reassures. I’ll make sure you know.”
“Cavar’s aching meditation on the challenges of inhabiting a body is also a stirring and serious account of what it means to be a patient, and to patiently await—no, to demand—a ‘getting better’ that goes beyond the body and the self.”
Table of Contents
11: The Imagination in its full glory.
Antilude (Reya)
12: I grew afraid.
13: Time passes. From a place
14: Nothing was so different
Axe 1: Above
Axe 2: Rage Forest
Axe 3: EX_PULSE
Axe 4: Refuse
Axe 5: The Scale
15: The citizen
Prelude
1: RSCH is hiring again.
2: Citizenship is zero-sum.
3. CRIMINAL BODILY ACTIVITY.
4: A long white space.
5: Words are the current the currency.
6: This is the beginning of the story.
7: This is I, resurfaced.
8: Life persists.
9: What would become / RSCH
10: The Operator sewed a mouth.
About the author
Cavar is a transMad writer-about-town, author of five chapbooks, and editor-in-chief of manywor(l)ds.place. They are a PhD candidate in cultural studies and science & technology studies at the University of California, Davis, where they’re working on a dissertation about anti-psychiatry, gender anarchism, and identificatory self-determination on the internet.
You can find Cavar teaching bicoastally, as well as in publications such as The Rumpus, Kairos, Split Lip Magazine, Electric Lit, and Disability Studies Quarterly. They might also be at their local library.
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