The vaulted ceiling, a restoration of the original I was told, still showed indifferent, muscular gods reclining amidst gold-bellied clouds. Once one of the royal apartments of Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette, the Hotel de Castenada now ranked among the finest hotels in the world. “We could call (the book) a gender-bent Bluebeard, retelling a story about a married couple who loves one another very much and are hiding a lot of secrets from one another,” she said. Behind the locked door, she finds stacks of his former wives’ dead bodies. Of course, his bride’s curiosity rises to Orpheus levels, and she can't resist the temptation to look. No story was more influential in the writing of “Flower Bride” than the story of Bluebeard, the man who let his wife roam any room in his house - except for one. “I went to the ones that were my favorite and said, ‘This is horrifying.’ They’re casually gruesome,” she said. She found a few of her old books in her parents’ house, scrawled with her childhood notes. For Chokshi, those things are fairy tales. “I'm one of those people who when I’m off or feel sick, I immediately return to the things that make me feel nostalgic and cozy again,” she said. Still, living back in their childhood city of Atlanta, now as a married couple, and in the midst of the pandemic, she found herself dealing with an influx of emotions. Chokshi has been with her husband since they were 15.
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