Jesi Bender is the author of the forthcoming novel Child of Light (Whiskey Tit, 2025). Jesi is also the author of the play Kinderkrankenhaus (Sagging Meniscus), the chapbook Dangerous Women (Dancing Girl Press), the novel The Book of the Last Word (Whiskey Tit), and her shorter work was featured in The Gravity of the Thing’s Winter 2020 issue.
About Child of Light:
Thirteen-year-old Ambrétte Memenon has lived her entire life estranged from her family. After a series of financial failures, they reunite in rural upstate New York in the spring of 1896. Together in the new house but basically strangers, Ambrétte endeavors to connect to her parents through their interests: spiritualism for her Maman and electricity for her Papa.
In her pursuit, Ambrétte is drawn into a deep abyss of the unknown as she learns more about both death and the invisible pulse of the human spirit.
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