Strange Hotel follows a nameless woman as she checks into a series of anonymous hotel rooms around the world. Each stark, interchangeable space mirrors a different facet of her inner life, revealing the shifting dimensions of love, loss, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep going.
Returning to a room she once occupied years before, she realizes that while the setting is unchanged, she is not. As she moves from city to city and room to room, she establishes private rules for her encounters and relationships, trying to manage desire while holding at bay a grief she cannot quite name.
Through her fierce, vulnerable and often darkly humorous voice, the novel gradually uncovers what she is trying to forget, and what she is desperate to protect. The spare, intimate setting of hotel rooms becomes a stage for memory, loneliness, and the fragile possibility of renewal.
Strange Hotel will appeal to readers who enjoy psychologically rich, introspective fiction that probes how we live with absence, negotiate our own impulses, and imagine a way back home to ourselves.