Bitter Water Opera, the debut novel by Nicolette Polek published on Tuesday, asks exciting, original, and urgently relevant questions about the value and role of art. The book is a post-break-up story, whose depressed narrator first summons a whimsical visitor, then hits the road, staying in a lonely sublet followed by an eccentric hotel. Its events are largely metaphorical, and it is written in an atmospheric prose-driven style that creates a slightly altered realism.
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