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Sub Rosa

In this stunning, Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel, Amber Dawn subverts the classic hero's quest adventure to create a dark post-feminist vision. Sub Rosa's reluctant heroine is a teenaged runaway named "Little"; she stumbles upon an underground society of ghosts and magicians, missing girls and would-be johns: a place called Sub Rosa. Not long after she is initiated into this family of magical prostitutes, Little is called upon to lead them through a maze of feral darkness: a calling burdened with grotesque enemies, strange allies, and memories from a foggy past. Sub Rosa is a beautiful, gutsy, fantastical allegory of our times.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 317
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781551523613
  • Genres
  • fiction, fantasy, queer, lgbt, canada, novels, feminism, lesbian
  • Release date
  • 2010