Carole David’s The Year of My Disappearance is a searing, surreal, darkly comic descent into a woman’s psyche. From Governor General’s Award winning translator, Donald Winkler, into English, comes this pitiless assault on the author’s own torments and pretenses. Present here are  figures lodged in her memory: lovers, strangers, her mother, and Bosch-like apparitions out of her dreams and imaginings. Through it all, a fierce combat is being waged between immolation and survival. As David has written, “I gave free range to the lives that dwelt within me.” It’s down this road the blind spot sings.

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