Título: The Talking Stick: A Novel
Autor: Donna Levin
Sinopse: "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.”
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Talking Stick: A Novel”, de Donna Levin, publicado pela editora Arcade, em 2024 e com 408 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Arcade
Páginas: 408
Ano: 2024
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1648210317
ISBN13: 9781648210310
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Arcade trazem narrativas que transitam entre o ensaio informativo e a ficção densa, explorando temas como memória, identidade, política e mistério. A experiência de leitura costuma ser marcada por um tom reflexivo, ora filosófico, ora intimista, com ritmo que varia entre o contemplativo e o tenso. O catálogo sugere uma preferência por textos que combinam clareza e profundidade, com personagens e situações que enfrentam dilemas existenciais, sociais ou históricos. Há obras que dialogam com o passado, seja por meio de relatos pessoais ou investigações históricas, enquanto outras se aventuram em universos de paranoia, suspense e até elementos míticos.
