Anonyma

“The history of art is littered with Great Men and the Muses they use as stepping stones to brilliance. In this shockingly lyrical endlessly rich and luxurious nightmare of a novel the Muse turns. Yet it is not so much a tale of vengeance or comeuppance as it is a heroine's journey as Anonyma survives doomscapes almost beyond imagination and the transgressions of mere men mere artists survives the horrors imposed upon the feminine to rediscover her own magic and power. Anonyma novel and narrator holds up a dark mirror to our paradigm of art as a kind of device for reducing women to Platonic ideals while staging theophanies for men. But she also holds the mirror to herself her sisters even daring to hope a daughter. Full of blood and love and despair and courage this is a novel like few others I have encountered.” —Jayaprakash Satyamurthy author of Weird Tales of a Bangalorean