VAS: An Opera in Flatland: A Novel. By Steve Tomasula. Art and Design by Stephen Farrell.

About this book

Printed in the colors of flesh and blood VAS: An Opera in Flatlanda hybrid image-text noveldemonstrates how differing ways of imagining the body generate diverse stories of history gender politics and ultimately the literature of who we are. A constantly surprising VAS combines a variety of voices from journalism and libretto to poem and comic book. Often these voices meet in counterpoint and the meaning of the narrative emerges from their juxtapositions harmonies or discords. Utilizing a wide and historical sweep of representations of the bodyfrom pedigree charts to genetic sequencesVAS is finally the story of finding ones identity within the double helix of language and lineage.