Sub Rosa

(Paperback)

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Sub Rosa's reluctant heroine is known as Little', a teenage runaway unable to remember her real name in a dark, post-feminist vision that isn't for the faint of heart. In her struggles to get by in the world, she stumbles upon an underground society of ghosts and magicians, missing girls and 'would-be Johns' - a place called Sub Rosa. Little is called upon to lead Sub Rosa through a maze of feral darkness, both real and imagined - a calling burdened with grotesque enemies, strange allies and memories from a foggy past.'

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Amber Dawn's Sub Rosa is a masterpiece of imagination. It's haunting, chilling at points and then just so sweet. Her writing is stealthy and seductive, wise and witty and clever. Lock Mary Gaitskill in a closet with Francesca Lia Block and they might emerge with a map to Sub Rosa: a glorious mystery that creeps you out and then totally enchants. --Michelle Tea, author of Valencia and Rose of No Man's Land

Amber Dawn's story is a sinister fairy tale, as intoxicating as any of the Glories [characters] but also an allegory for the emotional hazards of sex work. --Bust

A uniquely rewarding read.... Amber Dawn keeps the proceedings at a darkly whimsical remove from the real hurts of the world. She knows we know that pain is real, that women are made chattels, that masters are cruel. She's after a larger vision that raises questions about the entire emotionally fraught edifice of our received beliefs about sex, men and women, roles and rights and abuses. -- The Globe and Mail (One of the Best Books of 2010)

Amber Dawn's Sub Rosa is a masterpiece of imagination. It's haunting, chilling at points and then just so sweet. Her writing is stealthy and seductive, wise and witty and clever. Lock Mary Gaitskill in a closet with Francesca Lia Block and they might emerge with a map to Sub Rosa: a glorious mystery that creeps you out and then totally enchants. --Michelle Tea, author of Valencia and Rose of No Man's Land

Amber Dawn's story is a sinister fairy tale, as intoxicating as any of the Glories [characters] but also an allegory for the emotional hazards of sex work. --Bust

A uniquely rewarding read.... Amber Dawn keeps the proceedings at a darkly whimsical remove from the real hurts of the world. She knows we know that pain is real, that women are made chattels, that masters are cruel. She's after a larger vision that raises questions about the entire emotionally fraught edifice of our received beliefs about sex, men and women, roles and rights and abuses. -- The Globe and Mail (One of the Best Books of 2010)

Author Bio

Amber Dawn: Amber Dawn is a writer, filmmaker, and performance artist. She is the editor of Fist of the Spider Woman and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.