“My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive
down to his place and see what might be in it for
us.”
So begins this remarkable novel by Amy
Bloom, whose critically acclaimed Away was called “a
literary triumph” (The New York Times). Lucky
Us is a brilliantly written, deeply moving,
fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck.
Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful
star and Eva the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in
search of fame and fortune. Iris’s ambitions take the pair
across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon,
from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous
Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long
Island.
With their friends in high and low
places, Iris and Eva stumble and shine though a landscape of
big dreams, scandals, betrayals, and war. Filled with
gorgeous writing, memorable characters, and surprising
events, Lucky Us is a thrilling and resonant novel
about success and failure, good luck and bad, the creation
of a family, and the pleasures and inevitable perils of
family life, conventional and otherwise. 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.
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