Amber Sparks

Happy People Don't Live Here

Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 256 Seiten
ISBN 1324094397
EAN 9781324094395
Veröffentlicht 14. Oktober 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Liveright Publishing Corporation

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Beschreibung

Just past the edge of summer, Alice and Fern arrive at the Pine Lake Apartments-a former sanitorium occupied by an ensemble of peculiar neighbors and a smattering of ghosts. Among the living: a professional mermaid, a handyperson moonlighting as a medium, and an awkward professor of medieval studies. For the determinedly private Alice, Pine Lake seems the perfect place to hide herself and her daughter-until the day Fern finds a dead body in the dumpster. Intent on solving this mystery, and dodging warnings from her increasingly paranoid mother, Fern's investigation digs up long-buried secrets that implicate each of her neighbors . . . and conjures a new party from beyond the grave. A darkly funny gothic tale, Happy People Don't Live Here is an unforgettable novel from a "master of the fantastic" (Roxane Gay) that takes a sharp look at love, family, and the sometimes-dangerous myths we make for ourselves.

Portrait

Amber Sparks is the author of the short story collections And I Do Not Forgive You and The Unfinished World. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Slate, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, daughter, and cats.