The Marbled Swarm

A narrator haunted by a cryptic inheritance follows a clue known as the marbled swarm from the French countryside into Paris and back, tracing secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the patterns that link desire to memory. As revelation and obsession blur, the prose moves between elegant seduction and quiet unease, keeping the reader close to a voice that feels both relentless and intimate. This is a book about appetite and restraint, about how high art and old money can hide systems of coercion, and about the strange ways desire is shaped and passed down across generations. Expect an experimental, fearless work that asks you to sit with discomfort while offering moments of haunting beauty and unexpected tenderness.

~ Included for how it maps desire, inheritance, and power with lyrical intensity, illuminating queer life and coercive systems while refusing tidy answers ~