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    Seeing red

    Oct 30, 2023 2 minutes

    ROUGE

    by Mona Awad

    (Scribner, $39.99)

    Mona Awad is a novelist of Egyptian and French Canadian heritage whose fiction employs black humour, satire, gothic horror and fantasy to excoriate the extremes women pursue in their quest for acceptance and beauty.

    Awad’s 2016 debut novel-in-stories, followed a serial dieter whose identity changed along with her weight. three years later, focused on a scholarship student who preferred her own

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