Habilis

A hallucinatory exploration into the origins of humans andhuman language perfect for fans of Brian Evenson and Eimear McBride.Lucy, a young woman with an uncertain past, finds herselfthrust into a mysterious anthropology museum that converts into a disco clubeach night. Moving through its labyrinthine galleries, she tries to constructan origin story for herself and for her species. But as the night progresses,her grip on language and identity slips away until the exhibit captions rupturethe text, transporting us to East Africa, where the lives of threepeopleBritish anthropologist Mary Leakey, an Indian indentured laborerbuilding the Uganda Railway, and a curator with too many secretsinterweave toreveal the darker side of the search for origins.Surreal, spiraling, and daringly innovative, Habilisis all at once a historical reconstruction, a psychological horror, a mystery,a ghost story, and a creation myth. But above all, it is a meditation onlanguage, desire, and the stories we tell about ourselvesespecially those thatmight unravel us.