Disquiet Drive is a unique fiction work by London-based writer Hesse K in which a satellite falls out of the sky and splits a girl in half.
The publisher describes the book as being 'scraped together from the shorn parts of a person who may no longer exist. Beginning with an admission that language and embodiment seem indistinguishable, yet refusing to claim a singular voice, the texts in this collection lurch between the fiery crucible of a transition and the weird jaggedness of our own continuity; between inverted memoir and prose-poetry; the raw, irrepressible lyric and the essay as an exercise in the art of digging-one’s-heels-in. Disquiet Drive is about undoing the words we’re handed so that language can survive, and undoing the body so that it can find a way to live.'
Pilot Press, 224pp, 12cm x 24 cm, paperback, 2024