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Saturnalia: A Novel
Stephanie FeldmanThe Saturnalia carnival marks three years since Nina walked away from Philadelphia's elite Saturn Club—with its genteel debauchery, arcane pecking order, & winking interest in alchemy & the occult. In doing so, she abandoned her closest friends & her chance to climb the social ladder. Since then, she's eked out a living by telling fortunes with her Saturn Club tarot deck, a solemn initiation gift that Nina always considered a gag but has turned out to be more useful than she could have ever imagined.
For most, the Saturnalia carnival marks a brief winter reprieve for the beleaguered people of the historic city, which is being eroded by extreme weather, a collapsing economy, & feverish summers—whose disease carrying mosquitos are perhaps the only thing one can count on. Like Thanksgiving or Halloween, Saturnalia has become a purely American holiday despite its pagan roots; & nearly everyone, rich or poor, forgets their troubles for a moment.
For Nina, Saturnalia is simply a cruel reminder of the night that changed everything for her. But when she gets a chance call from Max, one of the Saturn Club’s best-connected members & her last remaining friend, the favor he asks will plunge her back into the Club’s wild solstice masquerade, on a mysterious errand she cannot say no to.
Tonight, Nina will put on a dress of blackest black, & attend the biggest party of the year. Before it’s over, she will discover secret societies battling for power in an increasingly precarious world & become custodian of a horrifying secret—& the target of a mysterious hunter. As Nina runs across an alternate Philadelphia balanced on a knife’s edge between celebration & catastrophe, through parades, worship houses, museums, hidden mansions, & the place she once called home, she’s forced to confront her past in order to take charge of her own—& perhaps everyone’s—future.
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Stephanie Feldman is the author of the debut novel The Angel of Losses
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