Elder Physics: The Wrong of Time: Stories from an Elder Home

Elder Physics: The Wrong of Time: Stories from an Elder HomeElder Physics: The Wrong of Time is an illustrated novel built almost entirely from monologue. Gerald and his son trade witty, glancing talk about life inside an elder home, and as Gerald's body and mind decline he moves from Independent Living to Assisted Living and, finally, to Death. Father and son keep pulling in other texts and refunctioning them, bending borrowed language to fit a gerontic narrative into a sampler culture. James R. Hugunin calls

A last one dreams of turning into a rat to hide in a wall once his parents are gone

Case X puts its narrator head-first into a Tomotherapy radiation machine and keeps him there

sweet and lyrical — a novella on the inevitability of love

Read alongside the fiction

they each fight and claw themselves back to sanity by repeating the same behavior that has saved them in the past

Larry Fondation

called Mememo

edited by Eckhard Gerdes

and the one place to read the procedure on the page: language treated as found material

They prod it

together they form the dilogy that closes Tarnawsky's prose career

after Apostrophe/Parenthesis and Ambiguity