Night Film
Marisha Pessl’s new book Night Film revolves around the mysterious, untimely death of Ashley Cordova, the piano-prodigy daughter of a reclusive cult-followed Lynch/Kubrick/Polanski-type film director, Stanislas Cordova. Although at a surface level it might seem to trot out the “Female Relative of a Male Professional” trope that an astonishing amount of novels deploy, the frictions of that dichotomy are what sustain the story. While “Night Film” is ostensibly about the many repercussions of artistry, Pessl did a wonderful job weaving each element into the story rather than just forming a collage of interesting ideas. For instance: I tried to...
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