Edan Lepucki Boeken

"Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. But Ursa's powers come with a cost"-- Provided by publisher

Fiction. Joellyn--as judgmental as she is insecure--tells her unborn daughter the story of her courtship with an unemployed, terribly-dressed man named Zachary. The novella is a romantic comedy--if romantic comedies were dark and screwed up and no one got exactly what they wanted.

The sunshine state lies in darkness. Los Angeles is in ruins, left to the angels now. And the world Cal and Frida have always known is gone. Cal and Frida have left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable despite the isolation and hardships they face. Consumed by fear of the future and mourning for a past they can't reclaim, they seek comfort and solace in one other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant. Terrified of the unknown but unsure of their ability to raise a child alone, Cal and Frida set out for the nearest settlement, a guarded and paranoid community with dark secrets. These people can offer them security, but Cal and Frida soon realise this community poses its own dangers. In this unfamiliar world, where everything and everyone can be perceived as a threat, the couple must quickly decide whom to trust. A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and irrepressible resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love.

Washington Post Best Books of 2017 New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki's Woman No. 17 is a "winning novel.” — New York Times Book Review High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children, she’s going to need a hand taking care of her young son if she’s ever going to finish her memoir. In response to a Craigslist ad, S arrives, a magnetic young artist who will live in the secluded guest house out back, care for Lady’s toddler, Devin, and keep a watchful eye on her older, teenage son, Seth. S performs her day job beautifully, quickly drawing the entire family into her orbit, and becoming a confidante for Lady. But in the heat of the summer, S’s connection to Lady’s older son takes a disturbing, and possibly destructive, turn. And as Lady and S move closer to one another, the glossy veneer of Lady’s privileged life begins to crack, threatening to expose old secrets that she has been keeping from her family. Meanwhile, S is protecting secrets of her own, about her real motivation for taking the job. S and Lady are both playing a careful game, and every move they make endangers the things they hold most dear. Darkly comic, twisty and tense, this mesmerizing new novel defies expectation and proves Edan Lepucki to be one of the most talented and exciting voices of her generation.

A ​hollywoodi hegyek közt élő Lady Daniels úgy dönt, el kell távolodnia egy időre a férjétől. Miután egyedül marad gyerekeivel, segítségre lesz szüksége kisfia mellé, ha megírandó önéletrajzi könyvét valaha is be akarja fejezni. Egy hirdetésre jelentkezve érkezik hozzá S., a vonzó, fiatal művésznő, aki a kert végében álló vendégházba költözik be, és gondoskodik Lady hároméves kisfiáról, Devinről, illetve szemmel tartja másik, már tinédzser korú fiát is. Csodásan végzi munkáját, hamarosan bűvkörébe vonja az egész családot, és Lady bizalmasává válik. A perzselő nyárban azonban S. kapcsolata Lady nagyobbik fiával nyugtalanító és baljóslatú fordulatot vesz. Miközben Lady és S. egyre közelebb kerülnek egymáshoz, Lady irigylésre méltó életének fényes máza repedezni kezd, és azzal fenyeget, hogy családja elől is rejtegetett, régi titkok bukkannak felszínre. S. eközben igyekszik megtartani saját titkait azzal kapcsolatban, hogy mi is volt a valódi szándéka ezzel az állással. Mindketten óvatos játékot játszanak, és minden egyes lépésükkel a számukra legfontosabb dolgokat sodorják veszélybe. Edan Lepucki regénye úgy hat, mintha egy hollywoodi film noirt olvasnánk. Sötét humorú, fordulatos és lebilincselő dráma művészetről, az anyaságról és két nő baljós barátságáról, mely egyértelműen igazolja, hogy Edan Lepucki generációjának egyik legtehetségesebb és legizgalmasabb hangja.