Box Girls by Aria Braswell
Box Girls by Aria Braswell
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Box Girls
by Aria Braswell
Publication Date: April 23, 2025
Trade Paper; 242 pages; 5-1/4" x 8"
ISBN 978-1-938753-50-3
HORROR
For nearly twenty years, the events behind the Strasbourg hotel’s closure have remained a mystery known only by the few who frequent the back alleys of Hollywood Boulevard. There are whispers there, of girls in glass boxes, legendary art installations wiped from the record, after one of the performers was found dead in her box. The Box Girls are a myth or a memory that only few can recall, until now. From the detritus, a transcript emerges and, with it, an intimate narrative, the definitive record of what really happened that summer to the Box Girls of the Strasbourg hotel. Over one hundred and twenty-eight interviews, and hundreds of hours of recordings, a frenzied tapestry of voices reveals answers to the mystery few knew existed, and explores visibility, identity, and the boundaries of perception in a world teetering on the brink of collapse.
“The chorus of voices in Aria Braswell’s stunning Box Girls is by turns mesmerizing, heartbreaking, and creepy as hell. In telling the collective story of a group of female performers, the novel asks what it means to be an observer and what it means to be perceived as an object. Box Girls is a demanding and grippingly intelligent exploration of power, isolation, and control, and Braswell herself is an unmissable new talent.”
—Lauren Grodstein, author of the New York Times bestseller A Friend of the Family
“Box Girls is a lyrical tale that unfurls in a series of captivating blinks, a heady cocktail of mystery and metaphysics. Braswell peppers our journey with enticing glimpses, her sly story related to us by a cast of beguiling female voices. Ultimately, this intriguing tale is underpinned by a dark bassline, an underlying tension. Because the question we must ask ourselves is this: Are we bearing witness to an art show gone terribly wrong, or an art show gone horribly right?”
—Christopher J. Yates, author of Black Chalk and Grist Mill Road
“Listen: you’re walking through this human exhibition and you hear smothered voices. Women are talking. Gulps and segregated breaths. They sound curious, isolated, terrified. Is this a performance piece? The Yellow Wallpaper by Camus or The Trial by Beauvoir? The exhibition is a translucent parade of women and spectators and managers. It’s a Big Metaphor, isn’t it? But here comes insidious movement. Real things happen. Ghosts and bees! Intrigues and airless horrors! In this play, the actors are stalked by something real. Box Girls is claustrophobic, joyful, spectral, and perversely liberating: we only hear their stories because of their boxes. Page by page, box by box, you crawl inside with them …”
—Jeremy Tenenbaum, founding editor of SORTES magazine
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