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Mar 2019

ISBN 978-1-9164052-3-3

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XYZT
Kristen Alvanson

ORIGINAL EDITION
Paperback
197�130mm
America
Exchange
Hyperstition
Iran
Myth
Travelogue

�We�ve been told that there�s no difference between us and them.� On this premise
the protagonists of XYZT contrive a device capable of shuttling volunteers back and
forth between the US and Iran, hidden from the watchful eyes of immigration police
and state bureaucracies. Each volunteer will have a single opportunity to be
received by a local host and to have a brief authentic experience of what it means
to live as �them� before being transported back home.

Set against the backdrop of escalating hostilities between Iran and the US, and
based on her experiences living in Iran at the end of the first decade of 2000s,
Kristen Alvanson�s XYZT builds on the idea of a �dialogue between civilizations�
only to demonstrate the potentially outlandish ramifications that might follow from
such a seemingly innocuous idea. An audacious cross-genre experiment, a firsthand
memoir of what it means to see what �they� see, and a science-fictional, non-
standard engagement with anthropology, XYZT reveals fissures and cracks in what the
media calls reality, but which in fact is liable to take on all the unpredictable
features of a contemporary fairy tale.

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