The Box: A Novel
Written by Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Narrated by Michelle H. Lee and Curtis Michael Holland
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The Box follows an impenetrable rectangle as it changes hands in a collapsing metropolis, causing confluences, conflicts, rifts, and disasters. Different narrators, each with a distinctive voice, give secondhand accounts of decisive moments in the box's life. From the anthrophobe to a newly hired curator of a renowned art collection, from a couple who own an antiquarian bookshop to a hotel bartender hiding from a terrible past, the storytellers repeat rumors and rely on faulty memories, grasping at something that continually escapes them. Haunting their recollections is one mysterious woman who, convinced of the box's good or evil powers, pursues it with deadly desperation.
In this mesmerizing, intricately constructed puzzle of a novel, Mandy-Suzanne Wong challenges our understanding of subjects and objects, of cause and effect. Is it only humans who have agency? What is or isn't animate? What do we value and what do we discard?
Mandy-Suzanne Wong
MANDY-SUZANNE WONG is a Bermudian writer of fiction and essays. Her works include the novel Drafts of a Suicide Note (Regal House, 2019); the essay collection Listen, we all bleed (New Rivers Press, 2021); and the chapbooks Awabi and Artificial Wilderness. Her work has appeared in Arcturus, Black Warrior Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Entropy, Island Review, and Necessary Fiction, and has won recognition in the Best of the Net, Aeon Award, and Eyelands Flash Fiction competitions.
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