Rouge: A Novel
- Author: Mona Awad
- Narrator: Sophie Amoss
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 14:42:09
Synopsis
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time, Vogue, The Guardian, Goodreads, Bustle, The Millions, LitHub, Tor, Good Housekeeping, PureWow, Our Culture Mag, and more!
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep?
For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.
Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.
Chapters
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021 Rouge Chapter17
Duration: 16min -
022 Rouge Chapter18
Duration: 55min -
023 Rouge Part4 Chapter19
Duration: 22min -
024 Rouge Chapter20
Duration: 21min -
025 Rouge Chapter21
Duration: 32min -
026 Rouge Chapter22
Duration: 35min -
027 Rouge Part5 Chapter23
Duration: 55min -
028 Rouge Chapter24
Duration: 05min -
029 Rouge Chapter25
Duration: 35min -
030 Rouge Part6 Chapter26
Duration: 07min -
031 Rouge Chapter27
Duration: 15min -
032 Rouge Chapter28
Duration: 07min -
033 Rouge Chapter29
Duration: 06min -
034 Rouge Chapter30
Duration: 57min -
035 Rouge Chapter31
Duration: 08min -
036 Rouge Chapter32
Duration: 04min -
037 Rouge Chapter33
Duration: 18min -
038 Rouge Chapter34
Duration: 17min -
039 Rouge Credits
Duration: 33s