In the Garden of Monsters
(2024)
By:
King, Crystal
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/KING,C
1 Hold on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Toronto, Ontario : Mira, [2024]
©2024
©2024
DESCRIPTION
295 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780778310570, 0778310574 :, 0778310574, 9780778310570
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes reader's guide with discussion questions, Q&A with the author, and recipes
Julia Lombardi agrees to accompany artist Salvador Dalí to the Sacro Bosco, Italy's "Garden of Monsters," in Bomarzo. There, she is his muse, posing as the goddess Persephone for him. The garden is unsettling and as Dalí becomes more and more fanatic, Julia becomes drawn to their host, Ignazio, whom she finds both alluring and terrifying. Julia is soon on the verge of unraveling, and Dalí's persistence is so intense that she begins to wonder if she really is becoming Persephone, queen of the Underworld