Hex

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Pub Date 14 May 2020 | Archive Date 14 May 2020

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Description

A breathtaking and hypnotic novel about poison, antidotes and obsessive love

Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in Biological Science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote, working alone to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. Her mentor, Dr. Joan Kallas, is the hero of Nell’s heart. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan’s office despite herself, mesmerized by Joan’s elegance, success, and spiritual force.

Surrounded by Nell’s ex, her best friend, her best friend’s boyfriend, and Joan’s buffoonish husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships, grudges, and obsessions. All six are burdened by desire and ambition, and as they collide on the university campus, their attractions set in motion a domino effect of affairs and heartbreak. 

Meanwhile, Nell slowly fills her empty apartment with poisonous plants to study, and she begins to keep a series of notebooks, all dedicated to Joan. She logs her research and how she spends her days, but the notebooks ultimately become a painstaking map of love. In a dazzling and unforgettable voice, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight has written a spellbinding novel of emotional and intellectual intensity.


A breathtaking and hypnotic novel about poison, antidotes and obsessive love

Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in Biological Science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote...


Advance Praise

'Cannily explores both the poisons and the antidotes of love, ambition, mentorship, and yearning, in prose so lively that I often found myself laughing with pleasure. Hex is some dark and joyous witchery' LAUREN GROFF

'Propulsive... reads a tiny bit like AS Byatt after dark … This is a bold and highly charged book' LITHUB, MOST ANTICIPATED READS OF 2020

Wise, funny, suspenseful’ JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

'Hex reads like a botanist's cross-breeding of The Secret History and Department of Speculation, full of brilliant and bodily obsession. Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is both a scientist and a magician, and she conjures this beautiful spell of a novel with total control' EMMA STRAUB

'This writing is an actual incantation in itself' JENNY SLATE

'Cannily explores both the poisons and the antidotes of love, ambition, mentorship, and yearning, in prose so lively that I often found myself laughing with pleasure. Hex is some dark and joyous...


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