Hush

Let's just write once and for all that I'm dumb and let it go at that. Okay? So writes Suster Reanne Mone, one of two known members of the Church of God the Silent and sporadic freshman at Bristol County Community College. Beset by a series of personal tragedies, the teenaged Reanne finds herself living destitute, drunk, and alone in her heap of a K-Car amidst the ramshackle, podunk village of Awnry, Mass. Spared from an early demise by her old chum, the iterative gamine Penny, Reanne finds salvation of sorts in the mystic washing machine tinker Clloyd Shoop. To make sense of the harrowing events that both precede and follow her encounter with Shoop, Reanne pens this outrageous, sexualized, hysterical, and highly personal bible Hush! In it, we trace not only Reanne s struggles for personal redemption, but her effort to overcome both the limits of religion and the limits of language of which all religion is made to find a space in which the unsayable may, blessedly, remain unsaid.