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What would you do for love? What would you sacrifice? Andrew Davidson's high profile debut The Gargoyle spans continents and hundreds of years to tell us a love story like no other.

The Gargoyle's unnamed narrator has already been scarred and burned by life when the resultant fire from a car crash gives him an outer appearance to match his soul. The novel opens with the crash, and the description of what he endures is not for the faint of heart. Both horrific and visceral, it immediately engenders the reader's sympathy for a thoroughly unsympathetic character.

Our narrator is wishing for death while his doctors struggle to save him. The only thing that keeps him going are the visits from a psych patient--a renowned gargoyle sculptress named Marianne Engel--who keeps insisting that theirs is a timeless love.

The years Davidson put into research shine through, not only in his portrayal of Viking Iceland, feudal Japan and medieval Germany and Italy, but also the narrator's agonizing time in a burn ward.

Is this a fantasy? A romance? Davidson leaves such speculation to the reader, tying up the narrative, but leaving you to seek your own answers. Whether you believe Marianne Engel's story or not, she will carve a place in your heart in the same way she sculpts the The Gargoyle.

Join us for the launch of The Gargoyle at our Polo Park location on August 18, at 7:00 p.m.

See Also: An Interview with Andrew Davidson