Invitation to a Bonfire

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Invitation to a Bonfire
256 pages
To Zoya Andropova, an orphan from rural Russia, suburban New Jersey appears covered in "sugar glaze," with "sweet and personal" houses marked by holly bushes and white picket fences. Yet the ingenue of this sultry novel feels like "a girl hollow with the knowledge that she still had no home." Enter Leo Orlov, Celt's spin on Vladimir Nabokov, who becomes the light of Zoya's life and the fire in her loins.
— Michelle Hart