'A Room Away From The Wolves' Makes The Gothic Bitingly Modern
Nova Ren Suma takes all the classic Gothic novel tropes — an old house, a cursed ring, evil stepsisters, a dark family legacy — and gives them a bracing update in A Room Away From the Wolves.
In A Room Away from the Wolves, angry, complicated girls get entangled in a Gothic mystery with all the classic elements â an old house, a cursed ring, a legacy handed from mother to daughter â but Nova Ren Suma manages to take these tropes and transform them into something modern and biting that lingers far beyond the final page.
When Bina and her mother ran away from her abusive father, they
