Including a 1962 novel about a lesbian grad student out to ruin her sister's wedding and a perfect piece of Clarence Thomas (boo!) satire.
by Katy KelleherAs someone often transfixed by the glint of a Baccarat dish through a shop window, the title of essayist Katy Kelleher’s upcoming book was enough to lure me in like a gnat to a vat of vinegar.due out later this month, expands upon Kelleher’s already gorgeous body of work on fragrances, colors, design, and art.
While stunning in its prose, this book is not for the faint of heart. With deeply researched excavations into the origins of flower petals, turquoise, ambergris, and porcelain, Kelleher forces readers to sit with the discomfort of the true cost of chasing and hoarding pretty things. Still, by book’s end, I got the sense that I’d spent 10 chapters with someone who experiences life so fully and with such agony that even shiny ornaments have the power to bewitch and undo her.
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