Still Lives: A Novel

Still Lives: A Novel

"Itâ€™s a thrilling mystery that will leave you wondering which characters you can and canâ€™t trust... Thereâ€™s a twist at the end that still keeps us up at night, it's THAT good." â€”Reese Witherspoon (A Reeseâ€™s Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection)

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE Selection

A BOOK OF THE MONTH Selection

1 of 22 New Books to Read This Summer (TIME)

1 of 20 New Books to Read in June (Entertainment Weekly)

1 of 30 Exciting New Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List (Buzzfeed)

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered womenâ€”the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many othersâ€”and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women.

As the cityâ€™s richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museumâ€™s opening night, all the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institutionâ€™s flailing finances.

Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala.

Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls on the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson, who happens to be Maggieâ€™s ex. A rogueâ€™s gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lordâ€™s disappearance, sheâ€™ll come to suspect all of those closest to her.

Set against a culture that often fetishizes violence, Still Lives is a page-turning exodus into the art worldâ€™s hall of mirrors, and one womanâ€™s journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and secrets.

"A suspenseful, splashy story about fame, sex, and how our culture views womenâ€™s bodies . . . I also loved that it tackled the sticky subject of how women are portrayed in art, culture, and the mediaâ€”and the consequences of those portrayals. This is a thrilling book, and a much-needed one. Read it and youâ€™ll see what I mean." â€”Book of the Month
Country USA
Manufacturer Counterpoint
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-06-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Counterpoint
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-06-05
Format	Kindle eBook

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