Synopses & Reviews
Fiction. Joellyn—as judgmental as she is insecure—tells her unborn daughter the story of her courtship with an unemployed, terribly-dressed man named Zachary. The novella is a romantic comedy—if romantic comedies were dark and screwed up and no one got exactly what they wanted.
About the Author
Edan Lepucki is a staff writer at The Millions, and her short fiction has been published in McSweeney's and Narrative Magazine, among others. Her first novel, California, will be published by Little, Brown in July 2014.
Edan Lepucki on PowellsBooks.Blog
Woman No. 17 is a novel about women, motherhood, art, sex, drinking, the Internet, and all the identities we embrace — and the many we are keen to reject. Lady is a recently separated mother of two; her son Devin is a toddler and her older son Seth, who is 18 years old, cannot speak. Lady hires Esther, a recent college graduate who goes by S...
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Edan Lepucki on PowellsBooks.Blog
I always listen to music when I write. It helps me focus, it shuts out the noise of the world, and it often puts me in an emotive space so that I can feel deeply for, and with, characters who are going through
a lot. While working, I make compilations of songs that best serve the fictive moment I’m wrestling with; some songs migrate...
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