Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold's decadent queer
literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics and
beauty, while interrogating the removal and obscurement of Black figures
from history. Solitary Mathilda has long been enamored with the 'Bright
Young Things' of the 20s, and throughout her life, her attempts at
reinvention have mirrored their extravagance and artfulness. After
discovering a photograph of the forgotten Black modernist poet Hermia
Druitt, who ran in the same circles as the Bright Young Things that she
adores, Mathilda becomes transfixed and resolves to learn as much as she
can about the mysterious figure.
Her search brings her to a
peculiar artists' residency in Dun, a small European town Hermia was
known to have lived in during the 30s. The artists' residency throws her
deeper into a lattice of secrets and secret societies that takes hold
of her aesthetic imagination, but will she be able to break the thrall
of her Transfixions? From champagne theft and Black Modernisms, to art
sabotage, alchemy and lotus-eating proto-luxury communist cults,
Mathilda's journey through modes of aesthetic expression guides her to
truth and the convoluted ways it is made and obscured.
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