The Truth About Delilah Blue - Softcover

Cohen, Tish

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554685869 ISBN 13: 9781554685868

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

Delilah Blue Lovett has always been a bit of an outsider, ever since her father moved her from Toronto to L.A. when she was eight, claiming Delilah’s mother no longer wanted to be part of their family. Twenty now and broke, but determined to be an artist like her errant mom, Delilah attends art class for free -- by modeling nude at the front of the room, a decision that lifts the veil from her once insular world.

While Delilah struggles to find her talent, her father, her only real companion, is beginning to exhibit telltale signs of early-onset Alzheimer’s. And her mother, who Delilah always assumed had selfishly abandoned them, is about to reappear with a young daughter in tow . . . and a secret that will change everything. Delilah no longer knows which parent to trust -- the only one she can really rely on is the most broken person of all: herself.

In a new novel as witty, sparkling, and poignant as her acclaimed Inside Out Girl, author Tish Cohen uncovers the humor and heart within the most dysfunctional of families.

About this title

About the Author:

TISH COHEN is the author of bestselling novels for adults and young readers, many of them in development for film. Her first novel, Town House, was a regional finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Her more recent novel, The Truth About Delilah Blue, was a Globe and Mail Best Book. Cohen recently sold an original TV series to ABC/Corus Entertainment, and her short film, Russet Season, premiered at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival in 2017. She lives in Toronto and Creemore, Ontario, where she rides dressage, accompanied by a most inappropriate farm dog, her Standard Poodle, Gracie.

Web: TishCohen.com

 

From Publishers Weekly:

Motherless would-be art student Lila Mack is the mixed-up heroine of the sluggish and predictable latest from Cohen (Town House). Lila lives with her father in Los Angeles, secretly working as a nude model at the local art school and deeply insecure about the fact that her artist mother abandoned her when she was eight. It's quite clear there's more to her mother's story than what Lila's dad has told her, so it's not surprising when Lila's mother shows up and reveals that Lila—once Delilah Blue Lovett—was actually kidnapped by her father. As it happens, there's a Web site devoted to her kidnapping that she somehow never stumbled across when Googling her mom's name. Cohen drops readers into a sticky familial morass—Lila's father has early onset Alzheimer's, her mother turns out to be quite flighty, the half-sister she never knew she had is more than a little neurotic—that's tidily complicated by a burgeoning romance with an art student. Unfortunately, the characters are hollow, the plot has too many unlikely developments, and the happy ending is as forced as it is far-fetched. (June)
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1554685869
• ISBN 13: 9781554685868
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432