The American Woman in a Chinese Hat

By Carole Maso

On the beautiful, indifferent C te d'Azur, an American writer rediscovers her sense of self through a string of sexual encounters.

Stunning and erotic, The American Woman in a Chinese Hat chronicles the irresistible adventures of Catherine, an American writer whose lover of ten years leaves her just before she embarks on a new life in France. Set into motion by a single act of abandonment, Catherine falls deeper and deeper into an irretrievable abandonment. Forcing the boundaries of identity, she enters a series of blinding sexual encounters with a poet, a fascist, a young Arlesian woman, a fireman, and three thieves. Written in a dwindling lexicon with a simple, warped musicality, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat is a dark, uncompromising, seductive work of art.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628977140
• ISBN13: 9781628977141
• Release Date: July 2027
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press