The Pink Hotel: A Novel

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LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICE "This book moved and provoked me in ways I cant fully articulate....Extraordinary."Anna Paquin (True Blood) A seventeen-year-old girl pieces together the mystery of her mothers life and death among the bars and bedrooms of Los Angeles in this dazzling debut novel. A raucous drug-fueled party has taken over a boutique hotel on Venice Beachits a memorial for Lily the now-deceased free-spirited proprietress of the place. Little do the attendees know that Lilys estranged daughterand the nameless narrator of this striking novelis among them and she has just walked off with a suitcase of Lilys belongings. Abandoned by Lily many years ago she has come a long way to learn about her mother and the stolen suitcasestuffed with clothes letters and photographscontains not only a history of her mothers love life but perhaps also the key to her own identity. As the tough resourceful narrator tracks down her mothers former husbands boyfriends and acquaintances a risky reenactment of her life begins to unfold. Lily had a knack for falling in love with the wrong people and one man a fashion photographer turned paparazzo has begun to work his sinuous charms on the young woman. Told with high style and noirish flare Anna Stothards The Pink Hotel is a powerfully evocative debut novel about wish fulfillment reckless impulse and how we discover ourselves.