Chuck Palahnuik
Literary (?) fiction
Misty Wilmot was supposed to be a famous artist, but somehow that didn't quite work out. Somehow she ended up with a husband and a daughter and a dead-end waitressing job at the run-down hotel on Waytansea Island, where she's found herself living after marriage and pregnancy deferred her dreams. Somehow she's supposed to manage things alone after her husband, a building contractor, put himself in a coma through a failed suicide attempt. After his clients started calling, complaining of rooms in their houses found boarded-up, of strange obscene messages left inside.
All Misty wanted was to be an artist, before married motherhood on
this picturesque island distracted her. Now, she's at the end of her
rope. It doesn't help that all her mother-in-law wants her to do is take
up her long-forgotten paints. It's what Misty's daughter wants, too.
And many of the old island families are asking after her art... Something begins to seem not quite right as everyone on the island goes
to increasing lengths to spark Misty's creativity. It's not clear what
her art is supposed to accomplish - but it's becoming increasingly
evident that she won't be allowed to not paint.
This is a dark and snappily written little novel for those of us
interested in just how far people will go, and how awful the things they
do will be, to ensure their own survival. It's by the author of Fight Club - so expect a healthy dose of meta and a plot twist or seven thrown in for good measure.
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