Happy Friday everyone! Today I’m exploring a random book on my bookshelf with the help of Friday 56!
This book meme hosted by Freda at Freda’s Voice. Be sure to visit her blog if you would like to participate!
The Rules
- Grab a book, any book.
- Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that’s ok.)
- Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it)
- Post it.
- Add your (url) post in the Linky on Friday 56. Add the post url, not your blog url.
This week my contribution comes from The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky.
It's time for #Friday56! This week's quote comes from the delightfully weird, #TheRedCar by @mdermansky! #bookish #bookstagram #marcydermansky
About the BookIn the airport, I was surprised by how little it took to make me feel happy again.
Leah is living in Queens with a possessive husband she doesn’t love and a long list of unfulfilled ambitions, when she’s jolted from a thick ennui by a call from the past. Her beloved former boss and friend, Judy, has died in a car accident and left Leah her most prized possession and, as it turns out, the instrument of Judy’s death: a red sports car.
Judy was the mentor Leah never expected. She encouraged Leah’s dreams, analyzed her love life, and eased her into adulthood over long lunches away from the office. Facing the jarring disconnect between the life she expected and the one she is now actually living, Leah takes off for San Francisco to claim Judy’s car. In sprawling days defined by sex, sorrow, and unexpected delight, Leah revisits past lives and loves in search of a self she abandoned long ago. Piercing through Leah’s surreal haze is the enigmatic voice of Judy, as sharp as ever, providing wry commentary on Leah’s every move.
Dermansky evokes yet another edgy, capricious, and beautifully haunting heroine—one whose search for realization is as wonderfully unpredictable and hypnotic as the twists and turns of the Pacific Coast Highway. Tautly wound, transgressive, and mordantly funny, The Red Car is an incisive exploration of one woman’s unusual route to self-discovery.
And that’s it for this week’s edition of Friday 56! What do you think of this teaser? Would you consider reading The Red Car?
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