“Delible at its core is a seductive meditation on the ways young women mythologize, cling to, enrapture, and lose one another. This book is equal parts beauty and perversity, darkness and light. An affecting portrait of girls in the eighties drawn with great acuity.” ”
DElible: a novel
Insomniac Press (April, 2007)
336 PAGES | ISBN 978-1897178362
Chosen as a “Book of the Year” for the Globe and Mail (by Zoe Whittall) Delible tells the story of Melora Sprague, a 15-year-old girl whose sister is missing. The novel offers a glimpse into a sustained experience of uncertainty and, in so doing, explores how our identities exist in those traces we leave behind.
Along with Emma Donoghue’s Room, Delible is the focus of one chapter in Lucia Lorenzi’s recent PhD dissertation, “This Page Intentionally Left Blank: Silence and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Canadian Literature and Drama” (PhD, English, UBC, 2016.)
Delible can be ordered into your local independent bookstore (find an evolving list of indie-bookstores that deliver here!)
“... a compelling exploration of the intense, secretive world of teenagers…. Stone has constructed a narrative that’s often wrenching. It offers no false comfort or tidy resolutions, but … leaves a lasting mark.”
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“... an outstanding literary accomplishment.””
“... profoundly affecting””
“... a dark and brilliant work in which understanding is inseparable from grief.” ”
“… a haunting story of one teen girl’s experience of trauma ...””