Lisa-Marie Powell

Aug 29, 2023 | vulture.com | Emma Alpern |Nedda Afsari |Megan Parsons |Lisa-Marie Powell

Rouge is out September 12. Four years ago, the novelist Mona Awad went to a high-end hotel spa for a facial that seemed to go on for hours. Lying flat on her back in a robe as an aesthetician massaged her face and tried to sell her an epidermal-growth serum, she suddenly felt trapped, as if she were being held there by some sinister conspiracy. Once it had ended, she couldn’t find the exit and wandered through the hotel’s maze of hallways. “I just wanted to get out,” she said.