Nicolette Polek’s long-awaited novel Bitter Water Opera is a sensuous banquet that ravishes while leaving you hungry for more. From the smell of ambergris and the taste of French peach pie, to the site of a dilapidated opera house in the process of being resurrected in the barren plains of the Death Valley desert, its glow makes the reader wish it lasted longer, just as it slips through your fingers.
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