Sister Golden Calf : Split/Lip Press : 9781952897313 : 1952897319 : 01 Aug 2023 : "In shiveringly beautiful prose, Colleen Burner maps a wild voyage into grief, love, and radical forms of kinship. Their novel unstitches the fixed seams of self and stranger, inviting us to touch the peculiar, precise commotions that link one creature to another. A truly extraordinary book." -Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks "Sister Golden Calf is my favorite kind of novel: compact and meditative, delightfully strange, elegiac but awash in warm light and the promise of ineffable treasure in each sentence. Amid the variegated desert landscape and seductive kismet of the open road, the sisters face questions of longing and belonging, of how to care for each other and themselves, and of what artifacts to carry as they carry on. Colleen Burner has stolen my heart with this novel." -Alexis Smith, author of Marrow Island and Glaciers "I was blown away by Sister Golden Calf, a wise and brutally intimate explora