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Description

Christine is on tour for her novel, a revenge fantasy based on a real-life relationship gone bad with an older professor ten years prior. Now on the road, she＊s seeking answers〞about how to live a good life and what it means to make art〞through intimate conversations with strangers, past lovers, and friends.
But when the antagonist of her novel〞her old painting professor〞reaches out in a series of sly communiques after years of silence to tell her that he＊s read her book, Christine must reckon with what it means to lose the reins of a narrative she wrote precisely to maintain control. When her professor invites her to join him at his house, on a remote island off the coast of Maine, their encounter threatens to change the very foundations of her life as she＊s imagined it.
A pristine and provocative high-wire act toggling the fictions we construct for ourselves just to survive and the possibilities that lie beyond them,
launches a spellbinding inquiry into the nature of art-making and rigor, intimacy and attention, punishment and release.