“Captured girls in cabinets with curiosities. One is my sister, and the other my lover.” The concept is boldly creepy, the language eerily elegant, and the result not surreal entertainment but a pointed look at how the helpless, particularly women, are used and abused.

VERDICT Highly recommended for readers on the edge. -- Library Journal


“[Parkison] unfolds a fairy tale so harrowing it reads like a screen memory—so harrowing it must be true.” -- Joyelle McSweeney,
The Brooklyn Rail


Shelf Awareness Review  http://factandfictionbooks.shelf-awareness.com/?issue=230
In a lovely mansion tucked in the shadows of an unnamed jungle, there is a secret theater where kidnapped children are kept in cabinets and sold to "theatergoers" as part of an obscure sex trade. Aimee . Exotic birds fly among leather-masked falcons that attack the faces of powerless actors. The bones of infants are dug up and strung into puppets to amuse the children. In such a world, beauty only sharpens terror, luring the reader in before revealing the horrors of sadism, lust and the insatiable thirst for power.