In the Garden of the Fugitives

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I see you. I know where you come from, and what has been done in your name.' Nearly twenty years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past. He is older than her, a ghost from her university days, a former benefactor she has tried hard to forget. In his own youth, Royce spent two fateful summers working on a dig in Pompeii with a woman he would later memorialize with a scholarship - the same one that Vita eventually received.From opposite sides of the world, Royce and Vita enter into an adversarial dance: a double confession, a mutual reckoning, an attempt to settle old accounts. Sifting through the archaeologies of desire, shame and complicity, they explore the forces that lie like unseen foundations beneath who they have become. Between what has been repressed and what has been disguised are disturbances that reach back through decades, even centuries.Profoundly addictive and unsettling, In the Garden of the Fugitives is a thrilling psychological examination of what happens when the lines are blurred between victim and predator, between loyalty and obsession.