Awad Mona
Awad Mona - Rouge A Novel - Hardcover
Awad Mona - Rouge A Novel - Hardcover
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Description: A National Bestseller A US a Today Bestseller A New York Times Editors Choice A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post Good Housekeeping Electric Literature Tor and Literary Hub From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age (Good Housekeeping) and darkly funny horror novel (Nylon) about a lonely young woman who's drawn to a cult - like spa in the wake of her mother's mysterious death. Surreal scary and deeply moving like all the best fairy tales (People). A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time Vogue The Guardian Goodreads Bustle The Millions Lit Hub Tor Good Housekeeping and more! For as long as she can remember Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies Belle finds herself back in Southern California dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de M duse the same lavish culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother s) obsession with the mirror and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty envy grief and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror Rouge explores the cult - like nature of the beauty industry as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood - red rose petals Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality our collective fixation with the surface and the wondrous deep longing that might lie beneath.
Title: Rouge A Novel
Author(s): Awad Mona
Publisher: S& S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Barcode: 9781982169695
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/12/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: A National Bestseller A US a Today Bestseller A New York Times Editors Choice A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post Good Housekeeping Electric Literature Tor and Literary Hub From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age (Good Housekeeping) and darkly funny horror novel (Nylon) about a lonely young woman who's drawn to a cult - like spa in the wake of her mother's mysterious death. Surreal scary and deeply moving like all the best fairy tales (People). A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time Vogue The Guardian Goodreads Bustle The Millions Lit Hub Tor Good Housekeeping and more! For as long as she can remember Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies Belle finds herself back in Southern California dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de M duse the same lavish culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother s) obsession with the mirror and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty envy grief and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror Rouge explores the cult - like nature of the beauty industry as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood - red rose petals Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality our collective fixation with the surface and the wondrous deep longing that might lie beneath.
Title: Rouge A Novel
Author(s): Awad Mona
Publisher: S& S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Barcode: 9781982169695
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/12/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
