Between the Legs

Between the Legs is the novel that won the 2015 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel. The novel moves geographically: a couple travels from the Buchenwald concentration camp through Weimar, Prague, Vienna, and Lucerne to a Zen retreat in the Swiss Alps, carrying grief, addiction, and sexual obsession the whole way, with Freud and Kafka standing behind the prose. The award judge that year, James Chapman, chose it "over many other worthy candidates for the exceptional craft and originality with which it is written as well as for its deep sympathy for the human condition."