OUT LOUD

Alice Ariella Amadea has spent her life refusing other people’s definitions and framing. Slam poet, guitarist, lover, fighter—she turns language into a weapon and music into a way out. Her life moves through New York clubs, broken families, violence, discrimination, improbable love, sudden fame, and the stubborn belief that reality may be far less solid than everyone claims.

Memories contradict one another. Stories slip inside other stories. And MAL—a word, a machine, a library, a joke, perhaps something older—keeps turning up where it shouldn’t. OUT LOUD is a feral literary novel about identity, art, love, fear, and the stories we mistake for truth. What remains when the labels fall away?

Glenn Pennock, a published author since 1985, writes, paints, plays guitar, and has never been particularly convinced that reality deserves the final word. He lives among books, paintings, music, cats, and unfinished ideas—and considers that a perfectly reasonable arrangement.