CARMIE HSIAO

BUYING WONDERLAND

Artist Label

Carmie Hsiao

2020

Novel (Excerpt of first four chapters)

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Synopsis:

There’s an odd, curious place at the end of a certain street, where a neon blue flower hangs over the entrance. Except for two days, the building is closed all year round, dark and quiet. But during those two days, the normally empty street is filled with visitors from across the world, the rich and famous; the rich and infamous; the rich and anonymous. Read the first four chapters of one group of guests’ venture into this year’s event, the Smile Roulette. There’s something for everyone here in this auction house, where the guests are faceless, the items priceless, and the staff smile and say: Welcome to Wonderland: we’re open for business.