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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001 Rouge Open
Duration: 13s -
002 Rouge Epigraph
Duration: 23s -
003 Rouge Dedication
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004 Rouge Prologue
Duration: 12min -
005 Rouge Part1 Chapter1
Duration: 29min -
006 Rouge Chapter2
Duration: 25min -
007 Rouge Chapter3
Duration: 18min -
008 Rouge Chapter4
Duration: 25min -
009 Rouge Chapter5
Duration: 19min -
010 Rouge Chapter6
Duration: 19min -
011 Rouge Chapter7
Duration: 38min -
012 Rouge Part2 Chapter8
Duration: 29min -
013 Rouge Chapter9
Duration: 31min -
014 Rouge Chapter10
Duration: 26min -
015 Rouge Chapter11
Duration: 17min -
016 Rouge Chapter12
Duration: 29min -
017 Rouge Chapter13
Duration: 55min -
018 Rouge Part3 Chapter14
Duration: 17min -
019 Rouge Chapter15
Duration: 28min -
020 Rouge Chapter16
Duration: 28min