Artfully explores themes of pain, desire, and the meeting place of the
two, for a surreal, fairytale-esque accounting of what happens when we
go to the darkest places within ourselves, and within others."
--NYLON
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. Packaged with a
cover and end papers by famed English artist Rufus Newell and inventive,
white-on-black text treatments by award-winning designer Jonathan
Yamakami, Northwood is a work of art as well as a literary marvel.