A marriage splintering at the seams. A performance that stops feeling like performance. A love story that questions whether love itself is ever real—or just expertly acted.
Asher and Shannon have been married for seven years, long enough to build habits, patterns, and unspoken resentments. When the cracks start showing, they do something most couples would never dare: they turn their unraveling into a performance experiment. What begins as a creative exercise soon becomes a dangerous excavation of desire, identity, and the truths they’ve been avoiding.
Sable Marin’s The Provocation Project is intimate in the way only the best literary fiction can be. Told through sharp, cinematic scenes, Marin pulls you through the blurred space between art and authenticity, fantasy and confession. Every chapter feels like eavesdropping on the moment a couple stops pretending and starts revealing who they really are.
What this book explores:
- The messy negotiations of emotional intimacy
- Creative tension as both fuel and fire
- Female desire and the fight to reclaim a self
- What’s left of love when the performance ends
- Marriage as a living organism, beautiful, fragile, and breakable
Why it stands out:
- Lush, literary prose grounded by psychological realism
- A bold narrative structure that mirrors the couple’s fractured intimacy
- Scenes that feel like art installations—immersive, atmospheric, unforgettable
- Perfect for book clubs, artists, and readers who crave fiction with emotional heat and intellectual bite
The Provocation Project isn’t just a novel it’s a voyeuristic plunge into the private theater of a couple trying to find each other in the ruins. It’s about longing, silence, the desire to be seen, and the dangerous honesty that can break us open.
If you’re looking for a book that lingers, challenges, and sparks conversation long after the final page, Sable Marin delivers.
