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At the outset of the 2008 financial crisis Em has a dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously awaits news of her sister Ad who has gone missingagain Confronted by unfathomable loss and recovery Em begins
to see how madness permeates everything around her
Ems story is layered with other perspectives and voices There is Frank the failing manager at her office Jack the man Frank has loved for decades Em and Ads eccentric parents who live in a house that is perpetually being built and Tasio the
young man from Chiapas who works on the house Through them Lucy Corin portrays porousness and breakdown in individuals and families in economies and political systems in architecture technology and in language itself
The Swank Hotel is an acrobatic surreal and unexpectedly comic novel With her idiosyncratic magic Corin transforms the most mundane spaces into shimmering sites of the uncanny
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