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The PageTurners Book Club meets one Thursday each month. We will read a variety of books throughout the year---some might touch your heart; others might challenge the way you think. At least one will make you laugh — and a couple might make you cry. They are all good reads. And they are, above all, books you'll want to talk about with your friends--old and new alike!
The November Selection is Edgar and Lucy by Victor Lodato (526 Pages)
Eight-year-old Edgar Fini’s loyalty is torn between the two women in his life. There’s his mother, Lucy,
who, though she loves him, often disappears at night with her various “suitors.” And then there’s his
grandmother, Florence, who dotes on him, nearly to the point of suffocation. Often, the two women
are at each other’s throats, and Edgar must navigate the tension between them—though he’s too
young to understand what’s really going on. There are family secrets of which he knows nothing. He
knows only that his father is gone, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts.
After Florence suddenly dies, Lucy is thrown into the role of main caretaker, but is hopeless at the job.
As she begins an affair with Ron, a local butcher, Edgar befriends a troubled man named Conrad,
whose intentions are stranger and more sinister than the boy could ever know. In order to save Edgar,
Lucy has no choice but to confront the demons of her past.
At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this is an unflinching look at a shattered family struggling to find grace.
“I love this book. Profoundly spiritual and hilariously specific, Victor Lodato's EDGAR AND LUCY is an unusual and intimate epic that manages to capture the wonder and terror of both childhood and parenthood with an uncanny clarity. The surprising prose is a pleasure and never ceases to remind us how fragile human life is, yet how unshakeable the bonds. EDGAR AND LUCY will have you reading till 4am, then reaching for the closest warm body."
– Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl
REVIEWS:
“I tore through the luminous pages of EDGAR AND LUCY as if possessed. Edgar’s journey from boy to man is that rare tale that’s both epic and intimate, as joyful and startlingly original in its language as it is a pleasure to read. The tender, funny, living immediacy of its characters and what is revealed to us about human nature through their twists of fate took my breath away. What this book has to say about love and truth will stay with me for a very, very long time.
– Sophie McManus, The Unfortunates
“EDGAR AND LUCY is a quirky coming-of-age novel that deepens into something dark and strange without losing its heart or its sense of wonder. Victor Lodato writes with lyrical precision and unfailing compassion for his characters."
– Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
Event Type(s): Book Discussion
Age Group(s): Adults
Presenter: Dee Beaver
Dee Beaver
(248) 437-6431 ext. 201
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