The Talking Stick
eBook - ePub

The Talking Stick

A Novel

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Talking Stick

A Novel

About this book

"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."

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Information

Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781648210327
Edition
0
Subtopic
Women in Fiction

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. 1 The Top of One Mountain Is the Bottom of the Next
  8. 2 Overwhelmed, Overwrought, Overhoused
  9. 3 Treasure Island Treasure
  10. 4 Fly Away
  11. 5 You Never Forget Your First
  12. 6 Retail Therapy
  13. 7 The Most Awful Time of the Year
  14. 8 Swept Away
  15. 9 Summertime, but the Living Ain’t Easy
  16. 10 All How You See It
  17. 11 First Meeting Free
  18. 12 All Downhill from Here
  19. 13 You’ll Be Fine
  20. 14 In Case You Can’t Stand It
  21. 15 No Place Like Home
  22. 16 The Placebo Effect
  23. 17 Harder Than It Looks
  24. 18 It’s Been a Long Time
  25. 19 Read Him Like a Book
  26. 20 Moving Day
  27. 21 No Way to Live
  28. 22 Plenty of Blame to Go Around
  29. 23 Seems Like Old Times
  30. 24 Knock Down Walls, Build Bridges
  31. 25 Melon Madness
  32. 26 Gone
  33. 27 Scraping the Sky
  34. 28 The Father and the Daughter
  35. 29 Lemon Meringue Pie
  36. 30 Rock the Boat
  37. 31 Four Very Good Years
  38. 32 Off the Beaten Path
  39. 33 Only Human
  40. 34 Round and Round She Goes
  41. 35 A Large Capacity
  42. 36 Back to the Boat
  43. 37 Calling All Creators
  44. 38 Let’s Get Cookin’
  45. 39 A House Is Not a Home
  46. 40 Until We Meet Again
  47. 41 Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
  48. 42 Thank You for Your Inquiry
  49. 43 We Love You, Penelope
  50. 44 The Truth Hurts
  51. 45 Search but You Will Not Find
  52. 46 Return to Treasure Island
  53. 47 The Final Bridge
  54. 48 Believe It or Not
  55. 49 Food for Thought
  56. 50 Time and Tide
  57. 51 The Bottom of One Mountain Is the Top of the One Below
  58. Acknowledgments
  59. About the Author