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The paper wasp: a novel

โœ Scribed by Acampora, Lauren

Publisher
Grove Atlantic; Grove Press
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
161 KB
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
0802147089

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โœฆ Synopsis

An electrifying debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp is a riveting knife-edge story of two women's dark friendship of twisted ambition set against the backdrop of contemporary Hollywood

In small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary life. Once a bright student on the cusp of a promising art career, she now languishes in her childhood home, trudging to and from her job as a supermarket cashier. Each day she is taunted from the magazine racks by the success of her former best friend Elise, a rising Hollywood starlet whose life in pictures Abby obsessively scrapbooks. At night Abby escapes through the films of her favorite director, Auguste Perren, a cult figure known for his creative institute the Rhizome. Inspired by Perren, Abby draws fantastical storyboards based on her often premonitory dreams, a visionary gift she keeps hidden.

When Abby encounters Elise again at their high school reunion, she is...

โœฆ Subjects

Self-realization in women -- Fiction

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