![]() ![]() Tripping Arcadia follows med school dropout and poison nerd Helena as she’s hired to work for a rich family as the caretaker of their chronically ill son, a boy rumored to be addicted to alcohol and cruel as a viper. ![]() And, of course, I loved our relationship: our main character Lena’s with rich siblings Audrey and Jonathon in particular. Kit Mayquist’s writing is absolutely, entirely gorgeous, descriptive and vivid and dark, with each word carrying a certain weight. Sapphic characters and twisted, broken boys speckle this book like stars in the night sky-or, aptly, like the poisons dotting the pages of this book-and bring to life a world which I enjoyed and despised in equal measure. What can I say about it? An atmospheric debut, reminiscent of THE GREAT GATSBY, with raging parties and drugs and alcohol galore. ![]()
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