The Unmasking - by Lynn C Miller (Paperback)

About the Book

"The Unmasking is smart, irreverent, and wickedly tender."--Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of My Life as a Silent Movie: A Novel

Book Synopsis

The Unmasking is smart, irreverent, and wickedly tender.--Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of My Life as a Silent Movie: A Novel

Review Quotes

The Unmasking is smart, irreverent, and wickedly tender. Miller displays an unerring eye for contemporary American foibles, inside and outside academic life, using a classic murder mystery to expose the truth to her characters and the reader. Not for a minute does The Unmasking lose its perfect pitch or its pacing. Don't skip a page, don't skip a paragraph--it will all be covered on the final exam.--Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of My Life as a Silent Movie: A Novel

A literary look into the dynamics of female friendships and acquaintances in academia and the baggage, wreckage, and intimacy that invariably infiltrates these relationships over the years.--Ruthie Jones, Lone Star Literary Life

Extended discussions of feminism, academic shenanigans, and the lives of women who left their mark on literature. English majors will best appreciate this one.--Publishers Weekly

In The Unmasking, Lynn Miller offers a great cast of characters: a group of scholars caught up in a murder case that calls upon their insights into the mystery novels they study. Miller expertly toys with reader expectations and offers sharp, amusing jabs along the way--all the while celebrating revolutionary women writers and the much-beloved books they wrote.--Timothy Schaffert, author of The Swan Gondola: A Novel

In a witty homage to the locked-room mystery, The Unmasking isolates a group of feminist scholars at a resort in New Mexico. They are there to perform as remarkable women from history such as Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton, when the performance festival takes a sinister turn.--John Dennis Anderson, author of Student Companion to William Faulkner

Lynn C. Miller knows women-their wit, intelligence, humor, and sexuality. During a Chautauqua festival, The Unmasking brings together friends, antagonists, lovers, and sleuths in a tale of drama and suspense. Published in the year of the one hundredth anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the United States, The Unmasking is a testament to women's creativity and sisterhood. Miller writes with an original fictional voice and the skill of an experienced playwright.--Bev Magennis, author of Alibi Creek

This is a novel that will captivate you on many levels: an intriguing mystery in which lives are at stake, the story of a group of wonderfully devoted friends, and a study of the difficulties in deciphering our own and other people's realities. A book to savor and return to.--Kathleen Hill, author of She Read to Us in the Late Afternoons: A Life in Novels

About the Author

Lynn C. Miller is the author and coauthor of several books, including The Day After Death: A Novel (UNM Press) and Death of a Department Chair: A Novel. She has performed a number of solo performance pieces and plays about Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Anne Porter, and Victoria Woodhull.