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Sirens & muses antonia angress6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() In part two, set over the following year, the characters have left Wrynn’s bubble for New York City, where Preston and Karina prepare for a joint debut show at Robert’s former gallery, and Angress sweeps everything toward a wonderfully complex conclusion. ![]() ![]() Preston and Karina begin a romantic relationship on unequal footing, while Preston, a member of the school’s Occupy group, antagonizes an increasingly desperate Robert by excoriating his work in Artforum, and the novel’s first part ends with a major rupture. When Louisa asks Karina to pose for a painting, the initial reticence between the two fades, and something more volatile emerges. Angress nimbly embodies each of her characters, allowing her exceptional storytelling abilities to shine. The yin to Utley’s yang is Robert Berger, a teacher whose own art career, once white-hot, has atrophied. Preston Utley, a senior, questions the school’s relevance in the modern age. Her roommate, the icy and beautiful Karina Piontek, is everything Louisa is not: worldly, wealthy, and confident. Nineteen-year-old Louisa Arceneaux is a new transfer student at the fictional Wrynn College in New England, arriving from her native Louisiana. A quartet of artists negotiate love, ambition, and politics during the 2011 Occupy movement in Angress’s winning debut. ![]()
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