Epic and Lovely: A Novel
Autor Mo Daviauen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2025
Written as a deathbed letter to the UCLA physician who has tracked Nina and the other Good Thumbs throughout their lives, Nina recounts her final days with the group and with Cole, the charismatic, sadistic fellow A12er with whom she has fallen madly in love, who charms and harms her in equal measures. An unlikely alliance with a tech billionaire, the return of her estranged mother, and the birth of the baby she never thought she’d have force Nina to reckon with the triumphs and mistakes of her life and to fight to leave her child in good hands.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781959000624
ISBN-10: 1959000624
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: n-a
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: West Virginia University Press
Colecția West Virginia University Press
ISBN-10: 1959000624
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: n-a
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: West Virginia University Press
Colecția West Virginia University Press
Notă biografică
Mo Daviau is the author of the novel Every Anxious Wave,which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. A graduate of Smith College and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, Daviau lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works as a bookseller.
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Epic and Lovely is the swan song of Nina Simone Blaine, the daughter of a long-dead 1950s Vegas crooner and a Texas beauty queen forty years his junior. In the wake of her unexpected divorce, Nina returns to her hometown of Los Angeles to spend her final days with The Friends of the Good Thumb, a support group for patients with A12 Fibrillin Deficiency Syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects children of much-older fathers, causes several physical deformities, and results in death around the age of forty.
Written as a deathbed letter to the UCLA physician who has tracked Nina and the other Good Thumbs throughout their lives, Nina recounts her final days with the group and with Cole, the charismatic, sadistic fellow A12er with whom she has fallen madly in love, who charms and harms her in equal measures. An unlikely alliance with a tech billionaire, the return of her estranged mother, and the birth of the baby she never thought she’d have force Nina to reckon with the triumphs and mistakes of her life and to fight to leave her child in good hands.[
Written as a deathbed letter to the UCLA physician who has tracked Nina and the other Good Thumbs throughout their lives, Nina recounts her final days with the group and with Cole, the charismatic, sadistic fellow A12er with whom she has fallen madly in love, who charms and harms her in equal measures. An unlikely alliance with a tech billionaire, the return of her estranged mother, and the birth of the baby she never thought she’d have force Nina to reckon with the triumphs and mistakes of her life and to fight to leave her child in good hands.[
Recenzii
“Celebratory and satisfying in its ambiguities....A dark and complex exploration of the vagaries of parental and romantic love.”
“Daviau’s characters are nuanced and deeply complicated, and she writes through the lens of disability with honesty and humanity…. [the] wisdom—to know who the villain in your story is—carries through to a satisfying conclusion that will leave readers breathless. Ultimately, this book is a book about wanting to be chosen, but it’s also a book about choices and the power contained within them.”
“An original voice.”
"Epic and Lovely thrives with its morally complex characters and their layered relationships. In addition to a surprising storyline, there are also nuggets of common-sense wisdom throughout the book, hidden within its deliberate detachment. Even in the book’s final pages, you’ll be questioning the choices of its characters and reflecting on the quiet compromises we make in our own lives."
“Daviau’s characters are nuanced and deeply complicated, and she writes through the lens of disability with honesty and humanity…. [the] wisdom—to know who the villain in your story is—carries through to a satisfying conclusion that will leave readers breathless. Ultimately, this book is a book about wanting to be chosen, but it’s also a book about choices and the power contained within them.”
“An original voice.”
"Epic and Lovely thrives with its morally complex characters and their layered relationships. In addition to a surprising storyline, there are also nuggets of common-sense wisdom throughout the book, hidden within its deliberate detachment. Even in the book’s final pages, you’ll be questioning the choices of its characters and reflecting on the quiet compromises we make in our own lives."
Descriere
A disabled woman’s deathbed letter to the adoptive mother of her unexpected child recounting the precarious events of the last year of her life.