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White Hibiscus:

$29.99

Release date: 1st March 2025

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White Hibiscus:
a portrait in words
Loribelle Spirovski

About the Book:

White Hibiscus is a poetic memoir that circles around an archived memory unlocked by a woman during the captivity of a cruise ship journey. While her husband prepares for his piano recitals, she encounters portholes into her childhood, reliving memories of the Philippines with vivid clarity, and, at times, pain. For all its luxury, she can’t help being affected by what she observes on the ship, the passengers’ wealth, the crew’s subservience. Always prone to motion sickness, onboard her nausea is constant. White Hibiscus is a meditation on how trauma casts stones into the strange waters of our lives, creating ripples that stretch on long after the stones have sunk.

About the Author:

Loribelle Spirovski’s painting practice works in the interstices between the human figure and space, movement and stillness. Working in a number of simultaneous styles, her work spans traditional portraiture, surrealism and pop art that marries dark and light themes in a single experimental practice. Spirovski paints a fragmented world, reflecting the anxieties defining the present age while never relinquishing a sense of hope for the future. After building a celebrated artistic career, Loribelle now turns her ambition to writing after a long period as a dedicated reader with White Hibiscus: a portrait in words.

ISBN: 978-0-6459840-5-7

Cover artwork: Loribelle Spirovski, Las Meninas, Oil on wood panel, 40cm diameter. 2024.