The Indigo Hours

The Indigo Hours by Maria Sledmere is an immersive, radiant text that moves between autofiction, essay, and poetic prose to document the textures of contemporary longing. Centred around a seasonal arc and filtered through the ambient melancholia of late capitalism, the work refracts emotional experience through media, memory, pop culture, and shifting landscapes-from Berlin pools to prairie towns, from night buses to art galleries. Sledmere's sentences are lush, recursive, and sensorily attuned, sustaining a rhythmic, diaristic lyricism that continually folds the personal into the atmospheric. What emerges is a powerful reckoning with intimacy, grief, and temporality at the edges of digital and embodied life.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
Published: 10/31/2025
ISBN: 9781917617413
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.26d