Searching for Anthony Love - by Ginger Teppner (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In the tradition of Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector, Searching for Anthony Love is a daring, lyrical novel that follows a woman grappling with the presence of a beloved who has died.

Told through fragments, meditations, and moments of startling clarity, the book traces how love continues to shape consciousness long after its object is gone. Searching for Anthony Love explores the interior spaces where longing, embodiment, and spiritual inquiry collide--where sadness becomes a location, vulnerability a form of knowledge, and the body both a shelter and a site of fracture.

Review Quotes

"A new architecture of meaning is born. Here, sentences weep and sweat and wonder and swoon... A radical and radiant book to seek and be with."

--Joe Deany-Braun, Perelandra Bookshop

"As vertiginously erudite as Borges, as fractally luminous as Lispector, as linguistically fleet as Lydia Davis."

--Dante DiStefano, author of Heartland Errata

"Ginger Teppner presents the novel as philosophical treatise and points us to the in-between spaces where 'a history is hidden between phrases.'"

--Sara Veglahn, author of The Mayflies and The Ladies

"There are too few books like this--poetic, porous, brief--in the world."

--Dr. J'Lyn Chapman, author of To Limn/Lying In

About the Author

Ginger Teppner is a writer and educator who serves as English faculty at Polk State College and South University and leads writing workshops at theearthof.com. She holds a BA in Cultural Studies from SUNY Empire State College and an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University. She has authored three chapbooks: 28 Gestures (Precipice Collective), I Should Have Been Linen (The Lune), and Watercourse (Lulu), and is widely published in online and print journals. Teppner was honored to co-teach a writing workshop with Andrew Helton as part of "SunShip: The Arc That Makes The Flood Possible," Arts Letters & Numbers' exhibition in CityXVenice, the Italian Virtual Pavilion of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. She currently lives in central Florida with her husband, two dogs, a cat, and a cockatiel.