Burning Silk

In the sensuous and erotic lineage of AnaIs Nin, Marguerite Duras, and Carole Maso, Destiny Kinal has crafted her debut novel, Burning Silk, to transport the reader. From the first page, we plunge into the rarified and privileged atmosphere of an early-nineteenth-century French perfumerie on the Cote d'Azur, where fragrance scientists cross the threshold into the invisible world of pheromones, hoping to plumb those secrets in the person of the young silk maItresse Catherine Duladier. A decade later, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, we witness Catherine's disciplined but desperate attempts to keep her closely held secret from rising to the surface in the pressure cooker of her family's new silk magnanerie, where silkworms transform mulberry into the cocoon of metamorphosis and Catherine is forced to recognize that love without truth is violence. Will Catherine be able to ward off threats to her French Huguenot family's dreams of a successful business venture in the New World? As she emerges from her cocoon, will she be able to realize fulfillment in an unconventional mEnage-a-trois in a time when such utopian possibilities are being entertained in small experimental communities across the Northeast? Their Native American neighbors, the mEtis Montours, hold the key to both silkworms and silkworkers becoming native to this land: assimilation. Burning Silk is a novel about transformation, compulsion, and genetic destiny.

Author: Destiny Kinal
Publisher: Sitio Tiempo Press
Published: 05/15/2010
Pages: 378
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780984458417
Award: Benjamin Franklin Award - Finalist

About the Author
Kinal, Destiny: - Destiny Kinal is a writer, book artist, marketing consultant, feminist, bioregionalist, and publisher. And yes, that is her real name, awarded to her at birth by far-seeing parents. Kinal lives in the SF Bay Area, the Upper Susquehanna River, and south Florida on the Atlantic. Burning Silk, her first novel in the Textile Trilogy, won a First Book award from the independent book publishers association (ibpa) and was well reviewed. Set during the time of the Civil War, LInen Shroud, the second book in the Textile Trilogy, was released at the end of October 2017. The final book in the Trilogy, Oil & Water, will take place on the first oil fields on the planet in western NY and PA, ending the chronicle of the 19th century. What occurred there that has landed us where we are today.