House of Villadiva (B&W)

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A St. Louis Magazine Must-Read for 2021!</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>WELCOME TO THE ornate but rickety Villadiva whose stained glass windows and uneven floors house more than a century of St. Louis's queer culture and drama. In a city where ambition and history and activism and machinations mix with scandal and sex and ghosts and murder it's beneath Villadiva's crystal chandeliers that secrets are revealed and stories come to life. You'll feel you're in the room with provocateur Andoe and his riotous multigenerational tribe of eccentrics socialites drag queens card-reading witches psychic mediums addicts and promiscuous extroverts--as well as the stalkers liars and felonious headline-grabbing sociopaths who are determined to destroy them.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>House of Villadiva</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> reveals the heart and heartlessness of urban queer life in the 21st century-and the secret to living through it.</span></p>