When She Went to Mantua by Natalie Welber
Lady and Lord’s daughter, Jules, is dead, and someone is going to pay. While attending grief counseling sessions, the parents discover that their counselor, Lawrence, had a hand in Jules’ death. They plot revenge, but off in Mantua, Jules is still alive. Probably. Her happy-ever-after is so unhappy that she’s beginning to wonder if the fake-your-death potion was really poison. Her husband, Ro, can’t stop...
Lady and Lord’s daughter, Jules, is dead, and someone is going to pay. While attending grief counseling sessions, the parents discover that their counselor, Lawrence, had a hand in Jules’ death. They plot revenge, but off in Mantua, Jules is still alive. Probably. Her happy-ever-after is so unhappy that she’s beginning to wonder if the fake-your-death potion was really poison. Her husband, Ro, can’t stop thinking about the people he killed to get to this honeymoon. Shadows keep seeping out of the walls to haunt both star-crossed couples, and the earth is heating up, and the world is ending, and we’re all gonna fucking die anyways so can love be enough when you aren’t even sure that love exists?
Eventually, one of these households is going to have to face the fate ordained by Shakespeare’s prologue. Remixing Romeo & Juliet with a sprinkling of Macbeth and brand new poetry and prose, WHEN SHE WENT TO MANTUA hurtles into a rapidfire manifesto on how we grapple with the ghosts of our past – before the future ceases to exist.