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--Amber Dawn is well known in the North American LGBT community as a performance artist and reader. As a former sex worker, Amber Dawn has imbued her debut novel with both devastating realism and boundless imagination. --"Sub rosa" is Latin for "under the rose," indicating something conducted in secret or confidentially. The novel's title refers to a secret society of prostitutes who work in a place called Sub Rosa; as they battle "live ones" (johns) and fight to find a way out of the maze of feral darkness in which they find themselves, they are also seeking to reclaim their memories and thei...
--Amber Dawn is well known in the North American LGBT community as a performance artist and reader. As a former sex worker, Amber Dawn has imbued her debut novel with both devastating realism and boundless imagination. --"Sub rosa" is Latin for "under the rose," indicating something conducted in secret or confidentially. The novel's title refers to a secret society of prostitutes who work in a place called Sub Rosa; as they battle "live ones" (johns) and fight to find a way out of the maze of feral darkness in which they find themselves, they are also seeking to reclaim their memories and their identities as daughters, granddaughters, and women.