Immaculate Conception: A Novel

In classes, it quickly became clear that not only was she supremely gifted in any medium of her choice, but she also knew more about art than anyone, particularly in critical theory and history. Sleep eluded her; she often woke after only a few minutes, crying out for her father or her mother, who had taken her own life shortly after her husband’s death. Triggered by this realization, hundreds of images and memories of Enka flutter to life in Mathilde’s mind. In the end, he wasn’t able to extract the burned and corroded object now permanently fixed in her head.