The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin – Review

The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin

The movies have provided escapism for so long that we tend to forget that the actors onscreen are themselves often trying to escape. For the orphaned Lilly Nelly Aphrodite, the heroine of Beatrice Colin’s new novel, “The Glimmer Palace, ” “ the only reality she could grasp was the reality of the film set. Only here could she make sense of who she was, what she was feeling and why; only here could she follow a script.” Lilly’s beauty, especially her “large gray eyes” that “could reveal everything, or nothing,” lets her discard her past and, in front of the camera, fashion a more bearable identity.

Book Review – ‘The Glimmer Palace,’ by Beatrice Colin – Review – NYTimes.com.