Dwelling: A Novel Violet Tobacco and meditate on the messages

and meditate on the messages of Bodhidharma

Can she be the person everyone expects her to be

Elliot is thirteen years old

and she can't figure out why

” —Kate Schatz

Dwelling: A Novel Violet Tobacco and meditate on the messagesA dazzling, surrealist fairy tale of a young woman's quest for house and homefrom New York to the Texas hinterlands and, maybe, back again. The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did the ending begin? Perhaps when Evies mother died, or when her father died soon after. Perhaps when her sister, Elena, was forcibly institutionalized in a psychiatric hippie commune in Colorado. Certainly at some point over the last year, as New York