Sensual World: A Novel

A surreal, Midwestern campus gothic about two young women at an avant-garde acting school whose obsessive pursuit of their craft tests the limits of their bodies and their trust in each other

At seventeen, Bet Cowl desperately wants out of Junction X, a remote Kansas hamlet where her puberty is ushered in by bizarre household rites. But when she discovers the manuscript of a never-performed, supposedly cursed play by avant-garde playwright Una Flood, an escape path opens. She auditions for F...