THE FORCE OF SUCH BEAUTY reading and signing with Barbara Bourland

320 West 29th Street,Baltimore MD 21211

28 September, 2022

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We're celebrating one of our favorite books of the year, THE FORCE OF SUCH BEAUTY! The author, Barbara Bourland joins us at Greedy Reads in Remington to read from her latest, jaw-dropping novel, and we join her in a celebratory toast. Light refreshments will be served.  About THE FORCE OF SUCH BEAUTY: After a failed attempt at escape, the princess of a tiny kingdom begins to reevaluate her life. Caroline, a former marathon runner who dropped out of school at fourteen to pursue an Olympic medal, was the perfect candidate for a tiara: shapely, disciplined, accustomed to public attention, and utterly uneducated. After she meets Finn, the handsome prince of a small European kingdom, her fate is sealed. With a collar of pearls locked around her throat and a rope of diamonds leashing her to a balcony, Caroline uses her once-powerful body to smile, wave, and produce children with perfect grace. But once she begins to open her eyes to the world around her—and examine her own reflection—Caroline discovers that she may have entered a bargain that cannot be undone. Barbara Bourland’s stunning third novel is her most ambitious and most imaginative book to date. Inspired by accounts of real-life princesses who yearned to escape, and set in a grotesque and gaudy prerecession 2000s Europe, The Force of Such Beauty is a heart-wrenching and compulsively readable testament to the way in which real-life power structures around the world ultimately rest on the subjugation of women’s bodies. The event starting at 8pm is separate from the book club event.