The work existed in this magic, special place because I knew I couldn’t write about it in a non-fiction way, because it is confidential and privileged. I had written non-fiction books and started doing this work as an investigator.
How did you achieve a blend of lyrical and didactic?Ī: I wasn’t expecting to write a novel, the story came about. Q: I learned a lot about prisons from “The Enchanted”, much of it disturbing. “The Enchanted” comes after Denfeld’s non-fiction books including “The New Victorians”, about victimism in the women’s movement, and female aggression and violence in “Kill the Body, the Head Will Fall”.ĭenfeld, from Portland, Oregon, lived on the streets when she was 15, sang in local punk bands, worked as a bartender and journalist, has done amateur boxing and is a mother to three children she adopted from foster care.ĭenfeld spoke to Reuters by phone from her home in Portland, about her new book, released in March by HarperCollins. Perhaps the freest of all is the walled-in narrator, whose disturbed fantasy life leads to a poetic sort of justice.Īs a licensed investigator since 2008 Denfeld has interviewed prisoners, on and off death row, and traveled to “the worst parts of the country and the worst streets and homes” to find friends, relatives and teachers who might help her clients avoid or overturn a death sentence. In the end all of the characters in “The Enchanted” turn out to be prisoners in one way or another. Order of Books » Authors » Order of T.A.(Reuters) - Non-fiction writer Rene Denfeld draws on her work as a death penalty investigator in her first novel, “The Enchanted”, the story of a prisoner who invents a horrible, liberating beauty deep underground.Īlthough he doesn’t even have a window in his cell, the first-person narrator imagines life on the outside, especially that of a character known as “the lady” who works to redeem death-row prisoners, much as Denfeld does in real life. Unlocking her hidden memories might just be the only thing keeping her alive to prevent the coming war. Monsters walk the labyrinth beneath Aurelia’s streets, and it’s there where Tate will find the biggest clue to her past. When a momentary impulse forces her to intervene in a situation she does not understand, she’ll find that reckless actions have unintended consequences.Īll by herself, Tate will have to work fast if she wants to survive in a city where no one is what they seem. Her only clue to the person she was – a dragon tattoo capable of moving under its own will.īrought to the city of Aurelia, Tate is forced to abandon the few people she knows to make her way alone. For Tate – last name unknown – everything prior to being found by pirates on an isolated piece of land is a blank. White Synopsis: Dragon Ridden is the first book in T.A.
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