AN ORAL HISTORY OF ONE DAY IN GUYANA (paperback)

Shannon Frost Greenstein (she/her) resides in Philadelphia with her children and soulmate. She is the author of “These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things,” a full-length book of poetry available from Really Serious Literature, and “Pray for Us Sinners,” a short story collection with Alien Buddha Press. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental Philosophy and a multi-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Pithead Chapel, Litro Mag, Bending Genres, Parentheses Journal, and elsewhere. Follow Shannon at shannonfrostgreenstein.com or on Twitter at @ShannonFrostGre.

"‘An Oral History of One Day in Guyana’ is history in motion. Greenstein dives deep into the Jonestown cult via interviews, medical records, and letters, mixing fiction with real accounts. I applaud Greenstein for recentering the story of the Jonestown Massacre on a set of female twins, with our heroine, Aisha Allen, sharing the harrowing experience of losing her twin sister, Imani, to Jim Jones. This chapbook explores the deadly consequences of obsession with sanctuary and salvation." 

— Christina Rosso-Schneider, author of "Creole Conjure" and "She Is a Beast" 

"A fascinating and troubling story, chronicling the long-term effects of a woman's indoctrination into The People's Temple and the devastating fate she meets at the Jonestown Massacre. Deftly structured, imaginative, and engrossing, Shannon Frost Greenstein has done it again; I can't stop thinking about ‘An Oral History of One Day in Guyana.’" 

— Jonathan Koven, author of "Below Torrential Hill" 

"Shannon Frost Greenstein’s ‘An Oral History of One Day in Guyana' is an exceptionally crafted, genre-defying inquiry into hope, belief, and family. Greenstein’s writing is once again characteristically hers: full of philosophy and celestial mysticism, and grounded in the gravity of her retelling of the unflinching truth of one family’s journey through an unspeakable tragedy. ‘An Oral History' probes the definitions of family, blood and otherwise, to consider what is worth fighting for; Greenstein ultimately answers this with life." 

— Alison Lubar, author of "Philosophers Know Nothing About Love," "queer feast," "sweet euphemism," and "It Skips a Generation"