The Art of Peeling an Orange Author:Victoria Avilan "Vividly written, suspenseful, darkly humorous" (The Examiner) When Carly Rosen is jilted on the eve of her wedding, she finds herself embarking on a startling journey of self-discovery. An astonishing contemporary retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Nominated for Lambda, Golden Crown and Rainbow Awards 2015. The Art of Peeling... more » an Orange, set in sizzling West Hollywood, is the art of glorifying and eroticizing the dual pains of love and lust. It is a gender-bending, risqué take on the Greek myth. The story's powerful structure, colorful characters, and magical themes echo the ancient story of the lovers in the Underworld. What do you do when your lover has eloped with another woman on the eve of your wedding? The other woman is a famous beauty named Anna Garibaldi, and you die inside. To add insult to injury, the one who has abandoned you dies unexpectedly. Where do you go from there for solace, for justice? If you are Carly Rosen, a portrait artist with huge imagination, you use your art to charm your way into the life and inner circle of the alluring Anna Garibaldi, whose seductive and secretive underworld is nothing you could have expected! You are doomed and you are blessed, and you don't know which you prefer.« less