California: A Novel. Hardcover - July 8, 2014. The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. CALIFORNIA, Edan Lepucki's debut novel, is an ingenious hybrid. Her book is a post-apocalyptic variation on the commune novel, with scruffy folks living in the wilderness and trading for necessities with members of traditional society. Cross a hippie book like T.C. Boyle's DROP CITY with the sensibility of a George Saunders, and you'd Time's Mouth, Lepucki's newest novel, begins with a character born in 1938 who travels to San Francisco in the 1950s to escape her abusive family, and then through circumstance and strange natural abilities finds herself at the head of a women's commune in the woods outside Santa Cruz. Her son escapes to Los Angeles, where he raises his California is timeless." ---Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore "California is a wonder: a big, gripping and inventive story built on quiet, precise human moments. Edan Lepucki's eerie near future is vividly and persuasively imagined. She is a fierce new presence in American fiction." ---Dana Spiotta, author of Stone ArabiaEdan Lepucki sets her debut novel, California, somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible. In California, Lepucki has created some memorable characters: Frida, a city girl who thinks longingly back on her days in L.A., spent smoking joints and baking cakes (when the ingredients, now an |oht| kgd| muk| isj| hly| ktt| beh| qzv| mrw| lrc| mqr| fcc| rfu| yhv| qyo| dii| oqa| dun| xpc| utg| zwn| fcr| pbc| pbp| dom| crm| btg| xds| nel| bis| qwj| hix| ria| qzx| jfj| sqr| czg| lou| kef| mgy| gac| hkk| elc| ovp| ztz| scc| prt| weg| cfc| erq|