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Your love is not good / Johanna Hedva.

by Hedva, Johanna, 1984-

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And Other Stories, 2023.

Korean American women -- Fiction.

Women painters -- Fiction.

Inspiration -- Fiction.

Seduction -- Fiction.

Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction.

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.

9781913505660 (hc.)

324 p. ; 20 cm.

At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the room: gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the center of everyone's attention. She wants Hanne, or wants to be her, or to sully her, or destroy her, or consume her, or some confusion of all the above. Since she's an artist, she will use art to get closer to Hanne, beginning a series of paintings with her new muse as model. When the paintings of Hanne become a hit, resulting in the artist's first sold-out show, she resolves to bring her new muse with her to Berlin, to continue their work, and her seduction. But, just when the painter is on the verge of her long sought-after breakthrough, a petition started by a Black performance artist begins making the rounds in the art community, calling for the boycott of major museums and art galleries for their imperialist and racist practices. Torn between her desire to support the petition, to be a success, and to possess Hanne, the painter becomes more unstable and disoriented. Is it any wonder so many artists self-destruct so spectacularly?

2SLGBTQIA+ fiction.

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