Avatar Author:Evan Lavender-Smith The literature of the dispossessed has found its most stirring contemporary avatar in Evan Lavender-Smith's brief tour de force of grief and solitude. — ... two stars one in front one behind both a quarter of a fingernail ... — Someone is floating in the depths of space with little more than his or her thoughts, tears, and strands of hair for comp... more »any; nothing more than two stars -- one in front, one behind -- for guidance. How long has he or she been in this condition? How did it come about? For how long will it remain? Distances of a second and a century collide to reveal a present moment beholden only to the broken clock of thought. In a mesmerizing and unforgettable monologue, the speaker of Avatar describes a mode of living and thinking sustained at the precipice of being.« less