Thieves: A Novel - Paperback

by Valerie Werder (Author)

A debut novel by a white millennial woman eviscerates the industries which produce her freedoms and responsibilities. She removes herself through processes of acquisition and elimination.

Valerie is an art worker in a big city, literally the product of an American childhood in a small place where she learned to value objects and their promise. The magic of being, thinking, speaking, and writing is all bound up for Valerie, a self-conscious creature, in the ways she can acquire and be acquired. She lives and works in a storm of things, many of which are commodities, including herself. Watch Valerie learn to love and accumulate meaning as she relates to the art she compliantly sells and the man with whom she steals things.

The consumption and reflectivity of a white American young-womanhood
lived in a phenomenological endzone comes delicately to life out of the sharp particulars thefted and loved in this urbane, semi-psychedelic
bildungsroman.

Author Biography

Valerie Werder is a fiction writer, artist, and scholar living in Cambridge, MA. Her work has been published in BOMB and performed at Participant Inc, New York, and Artspace, New Haven. She is currently a PhD student in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. Thieves is her first book.