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SUMMARY:Nghi Vo at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Nghi Vo—USA Today bestselling author of Siren Queen\, The Chosen and the Beautiful\, Don’t Sleep with the Dead\, and The City in Glass—for a discussion of her new novel\, The Scarlet Ball. She will be joined in conversation by Cassandra Khaw—bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Library at Hellebore\, Nothing But Blackened Teeth\, The Salt Grows Heavy\, and Breakable Things. \nAbout The Scarlet Ball\nFrom USA Today bestselling author Nghi Vo\, this all-consuming tale of ballrooms and bloodshed weds The Gilded Age with the Gothic vision of Guillermo del Toro. \nPick a face\, pick a fate. \nJudith Ban\, former convent girl\, courtesan\, and failed thief\, is on the lookout for her next identity. The daughter of a Vietnamese adventuress and a French naval officer\, she’s no stranger to risk\, but she’s unprepared for the secrets of New York’s legendary Four Hundred\, or for the women who build their power at the city’s heart through blood-soaked\, gold-etched rituals of demonic marriage. \nIn exchange for enough wealth to outrun her past\, Judith strikes a deal with the matriarch of the powerful Howard family: she will stand in for the missing Howard granddaughter\, who was poised to make her debut when she disappeared. With Miss Iphigenia Marshall’s face stitched over her own\, Judith is white\, rich\, and about to risk body and soul in the deadly games that determine which girls will find a match—and which will be devoured. If she can keep her wits and her life\, her reward will be a husband with undreamt-of power who will be hers to command… so long as she can keep his infinite hungers fed. But to survive the season\, Judith will have to seduce a storm in the shape of a man\, before the night to which everything has been leading—the Scarlet Ball where the demons choose their brides. \nA razor-sharp subversion of romance tropes and nightmare of manners\, Vo’s fusion of history and fantasy does for Edith Wharton what her acclaimed debut The Chosen and the Beautiful did for F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
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