6/14/21

Book of the Week (6/14/2021)

Pretty/Ugly by Jennifer Anne Gordon (Livre Maison, 2021).

Concord-based author Jennifer Anne Gordon thrills and delights in her new horror fantasy novel!

"Omelia fills the empty place in her heart with Instagram clicks, likes, and subscribes, hiding the scars of grief under a mask of makeup, cloaked in an online personality. She yearns to be someone new: a girl in a magazine, a character in a book, a beauty queen. Anything not to feel, to be numb, but the sharp pain accompanying the red spot on her face cannot be ignored. Nor can the black, spindly tarantula-like vines that creep up the side of her face and the fever she spikes, forcing her to confront the fact that the person she has become may not be who she is at all.

Dubbed 'the New JFK, ' Sam is the heir apparent to a powerful but emotionally distant political family, living the life he neither dreamed nor wanted. He sleepwalks through his days filled with self-loathing, rage, boredom, and an ache under his heart that reminds him that he is not complete. He is roused from slumber when a political scandal erupts that coincides with the end of the world. Too many Adderall and Old-Fashioneds leave Sam wondering, is he crazy or haunted?

When lives are emotionally ended in childhood, it takes an apocalypse to see the ephemeral beauty of living again." --Publisher's blurb 

Come enjoy an in-person discussion with author Jennifer Anne Gordon at Gibson's Bookstore in Concord, NH on Tuesday, July 13th, 2021, 6-7pm. This is a ticketed event with limited occupancy, and a firm ending time.

 

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