Those Savage Beasts (Portfolio: 3-Book Series & Branding Campaign)

Little Embolden Books
$12.95 US
$13.95 Canada
An expansive tapestry of
a debut, this novel interweaves
the lives of three
women, their “admirers”
and the people who sit
seemingly on the fringes
of their lives. Enter the
Penelope Rye is an artist,
activist and storyteller.
She has lived in Toronto,
Canada, Ann
Arbor, Michigan as well
as Boston, rural Texas,
Oregon, Finland, and the
Bahamas. She currently
resides in New York, NY
with her husband and
three children, and serves
as the Gerring Professor
of Creative Writing at The
New School.
Rye’s most notably
acclaim hails from her
has been featured in The
New Yorker, The Paris
Review, Zoetrope and
Harper’s Magazine. Her
short story collection, Cerulean,
won the Hudson
Prize in 2014.
Bewitching and extraordinarily ambitious, Rye
encapsulates a dream-world rife with longing, scandal and
a sense of timing only complicated by its own self-awareness.
Book I: Garden of Earthly Delights cradles each reader
into familiar spaces, only to masterfully destroy them
with expert timing and delightful fervor.
Readers beware: you’ll need to hang onto more than just
of voyeurism, sexism and felicitous retribution.
$12.95 US
$13.95 Canada
BOOKI: GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
PENELOPE RYE
BOOK I:
GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
“Enraging and enlivening, Rye is a powerhouse
of force. You’ll want to scream. And then get
a copy for all your friends”
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
PENELOPE RYE
Ali Robinson – A 22-year
old night-worker off the
Las Vegas Strip. A recurring
dream about a onetime
customer from St.
Louis re-wires her brain
into noticing only the
lurid details of each of
her nightly transactions.
It’s not until she awakens
from a two-week coma
that she starts to piece
together the full extent of
her abuse from a particularly
depraved customer.
Those Savage Beasts,
Book I begins as a series
of seemingly standalone
events, yet unveils its
larger arc through ravaged
characters whose
destinies are inextricable
from one another - and
perhaps even from the
reader herself...
FINAL FULL COVER
LOIS KAMANDULIS