Literary Fiction
A dual-narrative novel pairing a grieving modern teen with a Renaissance artist, exploring art, gender, identity, and layered storytelling.
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A dual-narrative novel pairing a grieving modern teen with a Renaissance artist, exploring art, gender, identity, and layered storytelling.
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This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a sec...
What's Inside
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Sexual content
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Pornography exploration; historical house-of-pleasure scenes; sexual identity themes
Violence & gore
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Depictions of graphic violence and death alongside historical-period brutality
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Artist's gender fluidity is central; queer sexuality and identity themes recur
Religious content
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Religious frescoes and church settings in the Renaissance narrative
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult content present
Political content
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Surveillance-state fears; social injustice and gender discrimination themes
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Gender discrimination; school bullying; sexual exploitation in historical sections
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