Desideria
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Built as a story within a story, the writer weaves the tale of the girl, Ange, in a madhouse and her questionable madness, with the story of Ange's past before her captivity when she was an actress of mysterious talent. Embedded throughout the story is the play, Desideria, that acts as both Ange's damnation and salvation and the hinge on which the story comes together.
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This is a strange little puzzle box of a novel, and you end up spending a lot of it trying to figure out what actually happened before the story takes place. I was satisfied with the conclusion, but I feel like the story beforehand was a bit repetitive and dragged in places.