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by Selah Saterstrom

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Beautiful and violent, spare and ominous, this wholly original novel explodes mythologies of Southern femininity.

In a multigenerational family saga that captures the rich beauty and passionate despair of the land and its inhabitants, The Pink Institution is a riveting, visceral novel written in a style that elegantly unites poetic prose with historic photographs and texts. It is also a testament to the legacy that war, violence, abuse, and poverty have wrought upon the Deep South. As we follow four generations of determined and relentless Mississippi women from their run-down, post-Civil War plantations to their modern-day trailer parks, the impoverished decay of the Deep South expresses itself through their bloodlines in a haunting reenactment of the past.

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  • Title The Pink Institution
  • Author Selah Saterstrom
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st edition,
  • Pages 140
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Coffee House Press, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2004-04-01
  • ISBN 9781566891554 / 1566891558
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.4 x 4.9 x 0.4 in (18.80 x 12.45 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Mississippi
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004000668
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Library Journal, 05/01/2004, Page 141
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/22/2004, Page 62

About the author

Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels Slab, The Meat and Spirit Plan, and The Pink Institution, all published by Coffee House Press. Widely published and anthologized, she also curates Madame Harriette Presents, an occasional series. She teaches and lectures across the United States and is the director of Creative Writing at the University of Denver.

Born in 1974, Saterstrom grew up in Natchez, Jackson, and Pass Christian, Mississippi. She earned her bachelor's degree from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, her Masters in Theology and Literature from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and her MFA from Goddard College in Vermont. She is the editor of Soul Collections, an anthology of prose and poetry written by at-risk teenagers in North Carolina and her work has recently appeared in Big Bridge, the Caf Review, Fourteen Hills, Tarpaulin Sky, the American Book Review, Ellipsis, Cranbrook Magazine, and elsewhere. The Meat and Spirit Plan is her second novel and a portion of the author's proceeds will be donated to Our Voice, a nonprofit crisis intervention agency serving Western North Carolina and to the Kim Duckett Fund for Women.

A former instructor at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, Saterstrom currently lives in Colorado and is on the faculty of the University of Denver's Creative Writing Program.

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