Daughters of chaos

a novel

Daughters of chaos

a novel
Jen Fawkes
Book - 2024

"In 1862, after a tragedy at home, 22-year-old Sylvie Swift parts ways with her twin brother to trace the origins of an enigmatic playscript that's landed on their doorstep. This text leads her to Nashville, the Union Army's western headquarters, bustling with soldiers, saboteurs, powerful men--and powerful women. Sylvie works on a translation of the playscript by day, but at night, under the direction of the Army's Secret Service Chief, she acts as a Union spy. Both endeavors acquaint her with a sisterhood whose members--including Hannah, a fiery revolutionary to whom Sylvie is increasingly drawn--possess uncanny, and potentially monstrous, powers. Sylvie soon becomes entangled in the Cult of Chaos, a mystical feminist society steadfast in its ancient mission to confront and eradicate the violence of men. Inspired by both Aristophanes' LYSISTRATA and the true story of Nashville's attempt to exile its prostitutes during the Civil War, DAUGHTERS OF CHAOS weaves together "found" texts, fabulism, and queer themes to question familiar notions of history and family, warfare and power." -- Jacket flap

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fawkes, Jen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Overlook Press, 2024.
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