A dark, sexy noir about the intensity of female relationships-whether mother to daughter or friend to friend-that lies behind the hedgerows of beautifully manicured Los Angeles, from the New York Times bestselling author of California, now in paperback
EDAN LEPUCKI is the New York Times bestselling author of the novel California, as well as the novella If You're Not Yet Like Me. A contributing editor and staff writer at The Millions, she has also published fiction and nonfiction in McSweeney's, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Cut, and elsewhere. She is the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles.
“A story packed with such wicked and wickedly funny confessions
about a host of hallowed subjects. . . . Lepucki’s witty lines
arrive as dependably as afternoon playtime, but her reflection on
motherhood and women’s friendships is deadly serious. . . .The
disclosures that Lepucki engineers in this smart novel are
sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious, always irresistible.”—Ron
Charles, Washington Post
“A sexy family drama featuring dual protagonists as well as sex,
art, mothers and mutism.”—Los Angeles Daily News
“A dark and clever tale about motherhood and the complexity of
friendships.”—SFWeekly
“Woman No. 17 reads like a Hollywood Hills film noir . . . the
dialogue is sharp, the fragrance of the wilting air
palpable.”—Seattle Times
“With Woman No. 17, Lepucki has succeeded in revealing a
simple truth: mothers are human—flawed and difficult and impossible
to hold at arm’s length.”—Paste
“Female friendships, artists, twisted secrets, motherhood, and the
posh and drama-filled hills of Los Angeles — if that doesn't sound
like a novel your mom will literally gobble up in a day or two, we
give up. This risqué and mesmerizing read by New York
Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki will make your mom race
through the addictive pages of Woman No. 17 in no time
(and we wouldn't be surprised if she rereads it again and
again).”—PopSugar
“Tensions are expertly spun by Edan Lepucki through the heat of the
end of summer in LA. . . . Woman No. 17 starts and
finishes in the here and now, and shows up the fragility of the
facade of civilization that we all in the Western world, be it in
American or Europe, like to think we hold up.”—Electric
Literature
“[A] Hollywood noir about the electric bonds between women . . .
this one is a safe bet for beach season.”—The Week
“Lepucki’s brisk style and arresting characterizations make for a
compelling portrait of womanhood in the present moment, right down
to its intriguing integration of social media.”—Publishers
Weekly
“An acidly inquisitive domestic drama set in the Hollywood Hills
and anchored to depthless questions of identity, family, and art. .
. . Lepucki’s arch and provocative tale of elaborate and privileged
dysfunction poses sharp questions about inheritance,
self-expression, and love.”—Booklist
“In Woman No. 17, Lepucki has crafted an intricate, gripping story
of people behaving very badly. You will want to race to the end to
see what happens, but don’t cheat yourself. This book deserves to
be savored –gorgeously written, darkly comic, smart and
thrilling.”—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling
author of The Nest“Woman No. 17 fizzes with references to
contemporary culture and sparks with larger, timeless questions:
Where is the line between performance and identity? What separates
life from art? And can we ever escape the gravitational pull of our
parents? Edan Lepucki shows herself to be a sharp-eyed chronicler
of our modern world.”—Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author
of Everything I Never Told You
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