False War - Carlos Manuel Álvarez Bob Stanley Melissa Anderson discusses Dern’s dazzling

Melissa Anderson discusses Dern’s dazzling body of work

displaced characters

In contrast to empathy

aree di libertà e di creatività sociale

Trudy Dehue

False War - Carlos Manuel Álvarez Bob Stanley Melissa Anderson discusses Dern’s dazzlingThe characters in False War are ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no mans land. Some of them want to leave and cant, others left and never quite finished getting anywhere. In this choral novel, employing a dazzling range of narrative styles from noir to autofiction, Carlos Manuel lvarez brings together a series of interconnected stories of the perennially displaced. From Havana