Maryse Meijer
Northwood.
Black Balloon, 2018. First edition. 9781948226011 127 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in red paper spine and boards, with drawing on front cover and illustrated endpapers. Book is new.
Part fairy tale, part horror story, "Northwood" is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages. The narrator, a young woman, has fled to the forest to pursue her artwork in isolation. While there, she falls in love with a married man she meets at a country dance. The man is violent, their affair even more so. As she struggles to free herself, she questions the difference between desire and obsession--and the brutal nature of intimacy.
Maryse Meijer is the author of "Heartbreaker" (FSG 2016)  "Northwood" (Black Balloon, 2018), and "Rag" (FSG 2019). She lives in Chicago.