Restlessness
Subtitle: a novel
By: Aritha Van Herk.
Publisher: Red Deer College Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Red Deer, Alta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Other titles: Restless ness
Description: A restless, wandering woman, whose life and work is to travel, determines that the only way she can appease her terrible homesickness is to occupy the still center of death. Unable to commit suicide, she hires a professional killer and contracts him to kill her, by her choice and on her terms. In an effort to dissuade her from death, her killer elicits from her stories about her travels.

In this reversal of Sheherazade, who saves her life through a continuous story, Restlessness becomes a story about how to avoid story, a travel book about how to evade travel, a manual for how to stay put.