acceptance

When David Bowie died in 2016, his parting gift was a final album, Blackstar, shaped by his cancer diagnosis and an acceptance of mortality.

"It's hard to describe what it is, to go that long, because the first three, four minutes, you're bathed in a sort of realm of acceptance and joy," the director said.

The acceptance of the offer never arrived and an impasse in discussions ensued.

Chaon’s writing evokes the surreality of its setting, but the novel is also an affecting story about the nature of acceptance.

“There’s a whole resurgence from people just discovering goth for the first time, and I want them to feel that acceptance that I felt.”