โ Scribed by Anna Stothard
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**This book moved and provoked me in ways Icant fully articulate....Extraordinary.**Anna Paquin (True Blood)
A seventeen-year-old girl pieces together the mystery of her mothers life and death among the bars and bedrooms of Los Angeles in this dazzling debut novel.
A raucous, drug-fueled party has taken over a boutique hotel on Venice Beachits a memorial for Lily, the now-deceased, free-spirited proprietress of the place. Little do the attendees know that Lilys estranged daughterand the nameless narrator of this striking novelis among them, and she has just walked off with a suitcase of Lilys belongings.
Abandoned by Lily many years ago, she has come a long way to learn about her mother, and the stolen suitcasestuffed with clothes, letters, and photographscontains not only a history of her mothers love life, but perhaps also the key to her own identity. As the tough, resourceful narrator tracks down her mothers former husbands, boyfriends, and acquaintances, a risky reenactment of her life begins to unfold. Lily had a knack for falling in love with the wrong people, and one man, a fashion photographer turned paparazzo, has begun to work his sinuous charms on the young woman.
Told with high style and noirish flare, Anna Stothards The Pink Hotel is a powerfully evocative debut novel about wish fulfillment, reckless impulse, and how we discover ourselves.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781250026804
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