Bøger af Donna Levin

"The situation: real women with real and painful problems.  The solution: have friends. Also, magic.  The result: A thoroughly engaging, completely entertaining novel by the great Donna Levin."—Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner award winner, Man Booker award nominee, and New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club Four women find humor, truth, romance, and a better path forward by deconstructing memory and emotion—and expose a wannabe cult leader along the way. Hunter is lost. Her husband left her for Angelica, her former best friend whose new hit memoir is spreading unsavory lies about Hunter. She’s unemployed with no prospects, and the San Francisco flea market she’s wandering on a weekday is so foggy that she literally doesn’t know where she is. It’s only after a helpful visit and a gift from a stranger who appears from the mist that Hunter finds her resolve. She begins a support group for women looking for new beginnings—only to have Angelica start one, too. In the next room over. One that feels very cult-y.The Talking Stick is the adventure of Hunter and the three women who join her reclamation journey. Together, they reexamine their pasts, explore their grief, addictions, parenting, and marriages, and discover that some of their most-cherished memories are romanticized versions of the truth. Meanwhile, they unearth other memories—memories that challenge how they’ve been living for years. And, with the help of a lawyer who prefers life on a houseboat to the pretensions of the city, Hunter unravels Angelica’s scheme.The Talking Stick is a fast-paced dramedy set in the Bay Area, told with the characteristic humor of Donna Levin, an author whom Kirkus called “A witty, modern voice” and the Los Angeles Times deemed “a novelist to keep high on your reading list.”

Lovely, very rich Margot, psychologist Joel Abramowitz's best friend's wife, confesses she loves him; the next morning, she vanishes. Is Margot dead? A twisted skein of love, murder and compulsion soon leads Joel on a frantic womanhunt through California's mad, mad world, fearing what may reside in the shadowlands of his own desperate heart.

Anna Kagen had her heart broken five years ago. Now alone with her children - Jack, a 16-year-old on the autism spectrum, and five-year-old, "gifted" Marissa-- Anna reconnects with Jason, a man from her past. They seem destined to become a new family. But not if their ex-spouses have anything to say about it...

Anna Kagen's life changes forever when, on a school field trip, she makes a small error in judgment that leads to another boy's death. Suddenly her son, Jack, a ten-year-old on the autistic spectrum, is a suspect, her husband's career is in jeopardy, and Anna has to choose between loyalty to her son ... and what may be her one chance at happine