Rachel Lyon

A compulsively listenable and electrifying debut about an ambitious young female artist who accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death - an image that could jumpstart her career....

Alternating between the two women’s perspectives, Fruit of the Dead incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a tale that explores love, control, obliteration, and America’s late-capitalist mythos....

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, Fruit of the Dead is about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld....

-Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation.