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Flowers of Darkness
by Tatiana de Rosnay
In a near-future Paris, writer Clarissa Katsef finds herself abruptly in need of a new start and a new home - and seems to find both in the ultra-modern C.A.S.A. residence for artists. But there's something rotten under the sleek, shiny exterior - and Clarissa can't shake the feeling she's being watched...
Tatiana de Rosnay's latest book is an eerie dive into a city and a world emerging from a series of disasters and teetering on the brink of even more, through the lens of one woman who, reeling from a personal disaster, stumbles into something even more troubling. This similarity to Mrs. Dalloway - done here in a darker, grimmer palette than in Woolf's day through London - is no coincidence, as Clarissa Katsef takes her pen name, her literary inspiration, and the name of her disturbingly watchful virtual assistant from Woolf's classic. These aren't the only literary allusions and layers to be found bound up in the short but tight story - Daphne du Maurier and Romain Gary, and perhaps others I missed, are accounted for - and the result is an exquisite, unsettling gem of paranoia, grief, artistic creativity, and the search for tranquility and a room of one's own, as the world crumbles beneath one's feet.
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the advance review copy!
Content warnings: Infant loss, discussion of suicide, substance abuse.
Tatiana de Rosnay's latest book is an eerie dive into a city and a world emerging from a series of disasters and teetering on the brink of even more, through the lens of one woman who, reeling from a personal disaster, stumbles into something even more troubling. This similarity to Mrs. Dalloway - done here in a darker, grimmer palette than in Woolf's day through London - is no coincidence, as Clarissa Katsef takes her pen name, her literary inspiration, and the name of her disturbingly watchful virtual assistant from Woolf's classic. These aren't the only literary allusions and layers to be found bound up in the short but tight story - Daphne du Maurier and Romain Gary, and perhaps others I missed, are accounted for - and the result is an exquisite, unsettling gem of paranoia, grief, artistic creativity, and the search for tranquility and a room of one's own, as the world crumbles beneath one's feet.
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the advance review copy!
Content warnings: Infant loss, discussion of suicide, substance abuse.