Dana Spiotta
1 SeriesDana Spiotta is an author whose novels "Stone Arabia" and "Eat the Document" were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, respectively, with the latter also winning the Rosenthal Foundation Award. She has been honored as a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and received the 2008-9 Rome Prize. Spiotta teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program and resides in Syracuse with her daughter Agnes.
Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta follows the lives of Meadow and Carrie, best friends and filmmakers who come of age in 1980s Los Angeles. Despite their shared passions, they diverge in their views on sex, power, filmmaking, and morality. Their paths intersect with Jelly, an enigmatic older woman who engages in intimate phone conversations with powerful men. Jelly seduces them not with sex, but by listening and prompting them to reveal their deepest selves. This novel explores the complexities of human connection and the art of storytelling.
