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"This book moved and provoked me in ways I can't fully articulate....Extraordinary."―Anna Paquin (True Blood)
A seventeen-year-old girl pieces together the mystery of her mother's 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 Beach―it's a memorial for Lily, the now-deceased, free-spirited proprietress of the place. Little do the attendees know that Lily's estranged daughter―and the nameless narrator of this striking novel―is among them, and she has just walked off with a suitcase of Lily's belongings.
Abandoned by Lily many years ago, she has come a long way to learn about her mother, and the stolen suitcase―stuffed with clothes, letters, and photographs―contains not only a history of her mother's love life, but perhaps also the key to her own identity. As the tough, resourceful narrator tracks down her mother's 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 Stothard's The Pink Hotel is a powerfully evocative debut novel about wish fulfillment, reckless impulse, and how we discover ourselves.
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About the Author
Anna Stothard studied English at Oxford and then moved to Los Angeles, where she was awarded a screenwriting scholarship with the masters program at the American Film Institute. She is currently living in Chalk Farm, London, and writing her next novel.
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In her debut novel, Oxford-educated Stothard unpacks the story of the recently deceased Lily Harris. Before she turned 20, this free-spirited woman gave birth to and abandoned a child. Lily fled her native England for Los Angeles and lived a glamorous life, never speaking about the infant she left behind. Seventeen year’s later, upon learning of Lily’s death, her daughter, the novel’s nameless narrator, steals her father’s credit card and flies to America. She sneaks into the Pink Hotel, which Lily owned, and steals a suitcase of her mother’s that is full of documents and clothes. So begins an emotional scavenger hunt in which Lily’s daughter tries to piece together the scraps her mother left behind and finds unexpected love along the way with David, a rumpled photographer who knew Lily as a model and perhaps something more. Stothard’s portrait of a teenage girl is spot-on, and she has used her firsthand knowledge of Los Angeles and England to enrich the complex cultural backdrop against which her saga unfurls. --Amber Peckham
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