Opheliac

When a local teen drowns and comes back as more river than girl, it dawns on residents that there is something very wrong in Steubenville. Emma Sloan' s debut chapbook, Opheliac, intertwines modern mythology and one of literature' s most enduring figures, Shakespeare' s Ophelia- using both as a vessel to explore betrayal and grief. It is a collection that wields evocative language, intertwining narratives, and the framing of the gothic American South to instill a thoughtful melancholy that lasts long after the last page has been turned.