By the author of the National Book Award finalist, Come to Me. 125,000 first printing.
A thrilling and resonant novel from the author of Away, about loyalty, ambition, and the pleasures and perils of family, set in 1940s America.
From Brooklyn’s beauty parlors to London’s West End, a group of unforgettable people love, lie, cheat and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd, heroic species. Praise for Lucky Us “Lucky Us is a remarkable accomplishment.
When Eva's mother abandons her on Iris's front porch, the girls don't seem to have much in common - except, they soon discover, a father. Thrown together with no mothers...
From Brooklyn’s beauty parlors to London’s West End, a group of unforgettable people love, lie, cheat and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd, heroic species. Praise for Lucky Us “Lucky Us is a remarkable accomplishment.
Her richly imagined characters and lovely prose make every page of this book a pleasure. (Margot Livesey, author of Criminals) Lucky Us is a beautiful novel. Elisa and Gabe's story is charged with desperation, tenderness, and compassion.