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020			_a9781398504943 _qpaperback
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100	1		_aAwad, Mona, _eauthor. _9131569
245	1	0	_aRouge : _ba novel / _cMona Awad.
260			_aLondon, UK : _bScribner, _c2023.
264		1	_aLondon, UK : _bScribner, _c2023.
300			_a372 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc.
520			_aFor 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 her mother 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 humour 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.
650		0	_aCosmetics industry _vFiction. _938704
650		0	_aMothers and daughters _vFiction. _9720
650		0	_aMothers _xDeath _vFiction. _91193
650		0	_aGrief _vFiction. _95595
650		0	_aCults _vFiction. _92512
650		0	_aHealth resorts _vFiction. _9132376
650		0	_aBeauty culture _vFiction. _9132377
650		0	_aBeauty, Personal _vFiction. _9116802
650		0	_aSkin _xCare and hygiene _vFiction. _9132378
655		7	_aPsychological fiction. _2lcgft. _91405
655		7	_aHorror fiction. _2lcgft.
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft.
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