Dear Marble Slab

The book is a hymn to literature as a way of life, to the conscious and unconscious ways in which it shapes the self, contributes to our narrative, and molds our subjectivity, making each and every one of us the author of our own life.

A novel about the limits of love and identity, as well as the fine line between creation and collapse.

Rena Luna writes a novel in whose complex web there is room for many things: the love affair between a student and a married creative writing professor (to whom she writes her letters), life in Paris, social encounters, and the broad literary coordinates of her universe. The way she portrays the inner world and weaves the protagonist’s psyche is truly charming.

– Giorgos Psomiadis, K Magazine

Rena Luna's second novel possesses many of the virtues of her first. As in that work, here too the author boldly grapples with a major theme, besieging once again the same ancient enigma—the profound erotic feeling that connects a man and a woman, or remains unrequited, and specifically in its modern version and from the female perspective. As in her previous book, here too the narrative talent she undoubtedly possesses is evident—a necessary quality for any ambitious novelist.

Luna dares to delve into the investigative analytical depth of the novel. Into the fertile expansiveness that cumulatively and cyclically builds the precious fictional horizon, within which the dramatic tensions of the characters are cultivated, with the aim not, of course, of gender activism or epistemological precision, but of the allure of the story. [...] The author excels in documenting her heroine's journey from enthusiasm to devastation and, finally, to the mature reclamation of her innocence: that enviable blend of child and woman.

Rena Luna signs a masterfully structured novel about our voracious need for connection, acceptance, and tenderness. Dark and sensitive, with a subtle irony lurking discreetly, it compels you to love it from the very first pages.

– Marie Claire

Luna's second epistolary novel captures a fragile psychological journey between guilt, desire, and excess.

– Fotini Simou, ELLE

Her second novel, "Dear Marble Slab", exudes maturity and confidence. It is a well-crafted epistolary novel with impressive language and strong literary roots. Luna invests in the interiority of the character study while simultaneously engaging in a literary game that involves the narrator, the characters, and the readers themselves. The result is a love "letter" to Literature, which, as it seems, can become either a prison or a place of absolute freedom.