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Саманта — студентка претенциозного Университета Уоррена. Она предпочитает свое темное воображение обществу большинства людей и презирает однокурсниц – богатых и невыносимо кукольных девушек, называющих друг друга Зайками. Все меняется, когда она получает от них приглашение на вечеринку и необъяснимым образом не может отказаться. Саманта все глубже погружается в…

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep?

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 Méduse, 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.

Миранда Фитч - преподаватель в колледже и блестящая актриса в прошлом. Ее карьера была разрушена несчастным случаем: она буквально свалилась со сцены. И теперь у нее болит спина. Жизнь Миранды - это работа на умирающем факультете театральных искусств и борьба с зависимостью от обезболивающих. Несмотря на это, она хочет поставить со студентами самую неоднозначную пьесу Шекспира "Все хорошо, что хорошо кончается". Вот только не всем эта идея по душе. Так начинается наше путешествие по искаженному миру Миранды, сотканному из хронической боли и недопонимания.

Диапазон аллюзий Моны Авад простирается от Шекспировских пьес до "Страха и отвращения в Лас-Вегасе" Хантера Томпсона и "Иствикских ведьм" Джона Апдайка, сочетая в себе остроумную сатиру, черный юмор и магический реализм.

Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks—even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she’s afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. So she starts to lose. With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She fights her way into coveted dresses. She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl?

In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad simultaneously skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance, and delivers a tender and moving depiction of a lovably difficult young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform. As caustically funny as it is heartbreaking, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl introduces a vital new voice in fiction.


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