The debut novel by an award-winning author of short stories.
Kidnapped girls trapped in a remote theater surrounded by mountains and
jungle are forced into illegal performances, displayed in cabinets with
curiosities, delicate limbs bound by straps, accompanied by dancing
puppets fashioned of dead children's bones. The Petals of Your Eyes
conjures up a painful, poetic world that won't soon be forgotten.
Aimee Parksion is an associate professor of English at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Parkison has received a
Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and a
Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize from North American Review. Her first
collection, Woman with Dark Horses, won the Starcherone Prize for
Innovative Fiction, judged by Cris Mazza. Parkison has an MFA in
creative writing from Cornell University. She lives in Charlotte, North
Carolina.