FROM A WARTIME BROTHEL to the intricate high society of 1870s Brussels, Under the Poppy is a breakout novel of childhood friends, a love triangle, puppet masters, and reluctant spies. Under the Poppy is a brothel owned by Decca and Rupert. Under the Poppy is a vivid, sexy historical novel as delicious and intoxicating as the best guilty pleasure. —Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing“Under the Poppy is unlike anything I’ve ever read, a world unto itself, spun out of fevered, sensual prose and vivid, compelling characters.” —Ann Arbor Observer“The brothel of Kathe Koja’s Under the Poppy requires no time and space coordinates.