Heather and Geoffrey — twenty-something siblings — become entangled in separate power struggles with a controversial professor, Dr. Barry Martin. His divisive views on masculinity have put him in the public spotlight in a way that’s created both public disgust and a private lust for proximity. As Geoffrey fumbles through grandiose academic desires, and Heather attempts to orient herself in a sea of male-inflicted indignities and conflicting impulses, the performances, and the absurdities, become unwieldy.<\/p>\n
\u201cDumb-Show<\/em> is Parker\u2019s caricature of the male Academic ego where masculine fragility is peeled back to its oppressive roots against female apathy to a smorgasbord of Male Academic rituals: from aggressively boring anecdotes and criminally unfunny jokes to secondary and tertiary intellect and mansplaining par excellence. Parker\u2019s Dumb-show is a subversive satire of surviving Academia, and Dumb show is perhaps the first book that I can only describe as “Academia Punk.” \u2014 Khashayar Mohammadi, author of Me, You, Then Snow<\/i><\/p>\n “I have long admired Fawn Parker\u2019s work. In\u00a0Dumb-Show<\/i>, Fawn Parker demonstrates the contradictions and complications of desire and disgust in a lustful, cynical Toronto that is both worthy of her Shakespearean inspiration and entirely her own. This is literature made from flesh, messy and bloody and exacting and haunting.” \u2014 Andr\u00e9 Babyn, author of Evie of the Deepthorn<\/i><\/p>\n “Vivid and vicious, Fawn Parker\u2019s\u00a0Dumb-Show<\/i>\u00a0holds nothing back in its hilarious attack on modern academia. With a sharp eye for ironic detail and striking, smooth sentences,\u00a0Dumb-Show<\/i> stays with you long after it\u2019s been put down.” \u2014 Adnan Khan, author of There Has to Be a Knife<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “This is literature made from flesh, messy and bloody and exacting and haunting.” Heather and Geoffrey — twenty-something siblings — become entangled in separate power struggles with a controversial professor, Dr. Barry Martin. His divisive views on masculinity have put him in the public spotlight in a way that’s created both public disgust and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1067,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"product_cat":[10117,10120,10118],"product_tag":[19,10284,10146,10240],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arpbooks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arpbooks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arpbooks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arpbooks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arpbooks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arpbooks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arpbooks.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}