A forgotten town in the middle of the desert. Beyond it lies “Nulle Part” (Nowhere), the rest of the world, which no resident dares to approach.
On a sweltering day in 1982, Calico Sunflower descends into horror: a wave of collective madness sweeps over a group of teenagers. Seized by rage, they ransack the town before vanishing into the desert. They will never return. Except for one.
Years later, police officer Ethan Neal and Andy, a witness, reopen this case that haunts them. If their investigation displeases the community, it is because it risks revealing the secrets upon which the town was built. What if Calico Sunflower, with no history or past, were nothing more than a deceptive utopia?
With this impressive debut novel, Ugo de Gregorio displays a unique sense of fiction by blending noir, social commentary, and fantasy. Aride draws on a fascinating imagination to explore the erasure of origins and the suffocating puritanism of our societies
