{"id":112,"date":"2021-12-05T15:52:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T20:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:23:32","slug":"that-night-alive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/novellas\/that-night-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"That Night Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">TARA DEAL<br><br>2016 NOVELLA PRIZE SELECTED BY MARGARET LUONGO<br>2016. ISBN 978-188116-360-2<br>$15.00 <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/that-night-alive\/9781881163602\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/That-Night-Alive-Tara-Deal\/dp\/1881163601\">Amazon<\/a> | Pathway<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Part futuristic fiction and part meditative memoir,&nbsp;<em>That Night Alive<\/em>&nbsp;begins on the narrator&#8217;s death date and moves backward in time to tell her story. She traces her path as a successful crypto-reporter, navigating a life of secrecy and solitude and world travel. A counter-narrative intersects, told by the same woman as a young artist struggling to create a work of beauty.&nbsp;<em>That Night Alive<\/em> investigates art and failure, persistence and success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">Reviews &amp; Such<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;a futuristic, contemplative meditation on the transitory nature of life, the suffocation induced by a world under surveillance, and the eternal struggle to funnel creative expression into a work that will live long after its creator.&#8221; \u2013<br><a href=\"https:\/\/heavyfeatherreview.com\/2017\/05\/08\/deal\/\"><em>Heavy Feather Review<\/em><\/a>, May 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>completely riveting from first page to last. \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestbookreview.com\/rbw\/nov_16.htm#bethany\"><em>Midwest Book Review<\/em><\/a>, November 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A microreview of&nbsp;<em>That Night Alive<\/em>&nbsp;appeared in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerds-feather.com\/2016\/10\/microreview-book-that-night-alive-by.html\">Nerds of a Feather Flock Together<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;in October 2016: &#8220;The novella reads as a perfect amalgamation of poetry and prose.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a tightly written and successful novella.<strong>\u2013 Melissa Reddish<\/strong>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/thesmallpressbookreview.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/the-future-as-past-review-of-tara-deals.html\" target=\"_blank\">Small Press Book Review<\/a>, September 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Beautifully paced,&nbsp;<em>That Night Alive<\/em>&nbsp;records a woman\u2019s yearning to make something lasting in a post-apocalyptic world of surveillance and subterfuge where genuine art is forbidden. Tara Deal\u2019s ambitious, inventive, continually surprising, and finely etched novella immerses us in a woman\u2019s struggles and rewards the most close and attentive reading.<br><strong>\u2014Lee Upton<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Tara Deal&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>That Night Alive<\/em>&nbsp;moments as vivid and complex as any actually lived weave a narrative of compelling intimacy. Unexpected images ask to be unpacked, considered, and remembered. The narrative plays with time in a language that provokes curiosity as we progress into the text and its world.<br><strong>\u2014Andrew Davison<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">About the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tara Deal is a writer in New York City. Her previous novella,&nbsp;<em>Palms Are Not Trees After All<\/em>, won the 2007 novella prize from Texas Review Press. Her shortest story can be found in&nbsp;<em>Hint Fiction<\/em>&nbsp;(Norton).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"904\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/deal_thatnightalive.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\" style=\"width:450px;height:678px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/deal_thatnightalive.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/deal_thatnightalive-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/Deal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122\" style=\"width:450px;height:482px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/Deal.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/Deal-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TARA DEAL 2016 NOVELLA PRIZE SELECTED BY MARGARET LUONGO2016. 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