While collecting the scattered stories of his parents’ entangled passages to the United States, the narrator begins to record the material onto videocassettes through a series of cutting and grafting, splicing footage of his present dislocation and overlaying on the audio track the polyphonic voices of his inherited exiles.
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“A dazzling novel that takes the now-staid modes of much autofiction and turns them inside out. VHS is incantatory, wholly original and alive. A bravura performance with a voyeuristic glee.”
—Ernesto Mestre-Reed, author of Sacrificio
“A brilliant lyrical and philosophical adventure. A novel as a screen capture, a guidebook, a reimagination, a reenactment … all those lightning connections of a brain running hot. The mix of tenderness and depth. VHS gives me everything I want.”
—Nate Lippens, author of My Dead Book and Ripcord