A Well-Made Bed
Will be published approx. on 14. April 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-59709-305-7 (ISBN)
Description
Nearly fifteen years after the death of her childhood friend in a violent hit-and-run accident, Noor Khan is still in the midst of struggle. With a failing equestrian business and suspicions of an unfaithful husband, her years of physical and psychological therapies have driven her to cross a line that blurs what is law, and what is right. When Noor's home-steading neighbor, Jaycee, gives her the chance to save her business and her marriage through the underground cocaine market, the two fall into a world of murder, copyright infringement, dementia, and one large wheel of Peruvian cheese that has them trapped in the morally ambiguous lives they may have desired all along.
Reviews / Votes
"The novel deftly navigates between narrators, keeping its momentum even when jumping back and forth in time as the women-and the reader-discover a dark secret that's been hidden away for 15 years. The storyline hurtles forward at a steady pace, keeping the reader engaged and managing to answer questions while creating new ones. . . . an absorbing read. A weighty tale that keeps the reader intrigued and entranced."-Kirkus Reviews
"A Well-Made Bed depicts an eclectic, morally dubious collection of characters . . . (who) exhibit a wily, formidable strength as they scrape their way out of bad situations, making the best of the cards they've been dealt"
-ShelfAwareness
"Lovers of literary fiction will appreciate the fullness of the characters, the topsy-turvy plot twists, and the thought-provoking themes."
-Foreword Reviews
"Frucht and Alberts construct a narrative that subverts genre conventions to effectively tell a new version of an old story, one with enough surprising prose to satisfy a wide variety of readers."
-Northwest Review of Books
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pasadena
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59709-305-7 (9781597093057)
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Persons
Abby Frucht, a judge for this year's Pen Faulkner Awards in Fiction, is a prize winning novelist and essayist who lives on a lake in Wisconsin, has raised two sons, worked as mentor and advisor for twenty years at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and counts her many friendships among women as one of the driving inspirations of her life. Laurie Alberts is the author of three previous novels, two memoirs, a story collection, and a book on the craft of writing. Her work has received the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Award, the Hackney Literary Award, an American Fiction prize, and a James Michener Award. She lives off the grid in Vermont.