Orchid & the wasp, Caoilinn Hughes
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Orchid & the wasp, Caoilinn Hughes
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eng
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Orchid & the wasp
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Caoilinn Hughes
Summary
Orchid & the Wasp brings to life the charged, compulsive voice of Gael Foess, daughter of a self-interested investment banker and a once-formidable orchestral conductor, and sister to a vulnerable younger brother, as she strives to build a life raft in the midst of economic and familial collapse. Moving by wits alone, Gael cuts a swathe through the leather-lined, coke-dusted social clubs of London, the New York gallery scene and birth-throes of the Occupy movement. Orchid & the Wasp is a modern-day Bildungsroman that chews through sexuality, class and contemporary politics. It examines how we can fail our loved ones by what we want for them; what makes for a good life; what we are owed and what we must earn; and how events in our lives can turn us into people we never intended to be
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adult
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