Amber Sparks

Happy People Don't Live Here: A Novel (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Amber Sparks' highly anticipated debut novel, a reclusive mother and her saturnine daughter move into a haunted building brimming with eccentricsand secrets.

Just past the edge of summer, Alice and Fern arrive at the Pine Lake Apartmentsa 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 daughteruntil 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324094401
• Artikelnr.: 73265464

Autorenporträt

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.