“This womens skin is shimmering and pale, her long black hair is tied with dozens of silver ribbons that fall over her shoulders. Her gown is white, covered in what to Bailey looks like looping black embroidery, but as he walks closer he sees that the black marks are actually words written across the fabric. When he is near enough to read parts of the gown, he realizes that they are love letters, inscribed in handwritten text. Words of desire and longing wrapping around her waist, flowing down the train of her gown as it spills over the platform. The statue herself is still, but her hand is held out and only then does Bailey notice the young woman with a red scarf standing in front of her, offering the love letter-clad statue a sungle crimson rose.The movement is so subtle that it is almost undetectable, but slowly, very, very slowly, the statue reaches to accept the rose.Her fingers open, and the young woman with the rose waits patiently as the statue gradually closes her hand around the stem, releasing it only when it is secure.....The statue is lifting the rose, gradually, to her face. Her eye lids slowly close.”

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About Erin Morgenstern

American multimedia artist and novelist

Erin Morgenstern is an American multimedia artist and novelist, known for her fantasy fiction. Her debut novel, The Night Circus, appeared in 2011 and brought her wide attention. The Night Circus was published in more than a dozen languages by 2013 and won the annual Locus Award for Best First Novel. Morgenstern later published The Starless Sea in 2019. She also received an Alex Award in 2012.

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The Starless Sea

2019

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