Awakening one morning in a tastelessly decorated hotel room, the protagonist Hazel Brown discovers a bewildering truth - she has spontaneously written the entire oeuvre of Charles Baudelaire. This revelation sends her spiraling into a world blending reality with the streets and cheap lodgings of her past, where she once sought beauty and purpose as a young writer in 1980s Paris. 'The Baudelaire Fractal' by Lisa Robertson is a journey through literary magic and feminist wit, cross-woven with personal myth-making, historical excursions into the art of tailoring, nostalgic reflections, and a deep-seated love affair with the aesthetic delights of the nineteenth century. This debut novel stands as a multifaceted gem of poetic narrative, questioning the very fabric of fiction and reality through its she-dandy protagonist's cerebral escapades.