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The Architecture of Tragedy: Maile Chapman

May 10, 2010 – 2:10 pm


A hike through the woods will never be the same after reading Maile Chapman’s debut novel Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto. While the Gothic novel has endured some trials and tribulations since its heyday over two hundred years ago, Chapman’s book adds a new twist to an oft-heard tale as the author slowly and intricately dissects the lives of the patients and staff of a remote Finnish hospital.

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