Fault

This novella-in-verse explores the high-stakes minutia of living with other people related by blood and marriage, through fables, ledgers, etymologies. The Fault takes on generational anxiety and blended families while counting costs, grinding axes, and laying bare the joys, dangers and absurdities of domestic intimacy. "Sometimes surging with the dark power of a fairy tale, sometimes verging on surreal, we meet a Step Mother who confides, We are throwing / the new house a party, so it will know who its mommy / and daddy are. Charged with humor, simmering with just-off-kilter antics."— Beth Ann Fennelly "Here, wife and husband meet to fault each other. Truthful surrealisms abound, like landmines or dreams… Sulak wonders if our human faults and gaps are what build a version of love that is gorgeous, sometimes painful, and ultimately more faithful to the love/danger of family making."— Connie Voisine

The Fault is Marcela Sulak’ s fifth Black Lawrence Press title. Others include the National Jewish Book Awards finalist, City of Sky Papers, the lyric memoir Mouth Full of Seeds, Decency, and Immigrant. She’ s co-edited the Rose-Metal Press title Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. Sulak’ s translations from the Czech, French, and Hebrew have been recognized by PEN and the National Endowment for the Arts. Sulak is managing editor of The Ilanot Review, and she directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University, where she is Associate Professor of American Literature.