But even as I suffered it, I still loved the act of playing because it was a great emotional outlet, and also because of that certain tactility - the strikes and the vibrations, and the drawn out, echoey quality of the sustain pedal. It was a love/hate relationship, with a lot of angst around the discipline of it, the practice and the lessons and the recitals, the hellishly incremental rise in skill level. Here, Lake and Jimenez discuss the music and writing that inspired the author while he created the worlds and characters of his debut novel.īarak Lake: Music is one of the most present threads in The Vanished Birds. What’s your relationship to music? Were you listening to anything in particular while writing the novel? What are you listening to now? His work has been featured in Canyon Voices and 100 Word Story’s anthology of flash fiction, Nothing Short Of.
Jimenez received his MFA from Emerson College and currently lives in Philadelphia. The Vanished Birds speaks to where we are now by showing us where we can go - and asking us how much will really change when we arrive.” This is science fiction at its best - a sideways glance at the realities of the world we live in, refracting the nuance and complications of life through its lens.
It shows the courage of loving another blindly, and the desperate pain of that love. “It is a queer coming-of-age story and an exploration of the nature of trauma.
“This is at once a space opera and meditation on mourning,” continued Lake.
“ The Vanished Birds is set over the course of millennia - a snapshot of humanity on the brink of Earth’s climate meltdown and that same humanity flung far into the future and across star systems,” said Barak Lake of Pegasus Books in Berkeley, California, who served on the panel of booksellers that selected Jimenez’s book for Indies Introduce. Simon Jimenez is the author of The Vanished Birds, a Winter Spring 2020 Indies Introduce debut novel and a January 2020 Indie Next List pick.
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