Descartes' Daughter and Sixteen Other Rare Cases

<p>What if your perfect family was an illusion created to keep you prisoner?</p><p>Psyche Descartes turns thirteen without ever having seen the light of day. She lives in a windowless house surrounded by parents uncles and aunts who seem eternally young beautiful and kind. Her only escape is a diary she writes in secret... until one day a forbidden kiss and a mask with the word OK engraved on the forehead begin to reveal the truth: nothing in her life is real.</p><p>Descartes' Daughter and 16 Other Strange Cases is a collection of interconnected stories that blend science fiction philosophical horror and a strange tenderness. Through the eyes of a girl raised by immortal scientists and machines with souls Alex Firefly constructs a universe where love identity and memory blur the boundaries of humanity itself.</p><p>A disturbing poetic and deeply original work ideal for readers of Black Mirror Mary Shelley or Cortázar.</p>