These Women
Sunday Times Book of the Month
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- 9,49 €
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'Marvellous.' Daily Mail
'A stunning achievement.' Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE MONTH
'A gripping novel with a difference.'Psychologies
'Immersive and immensely powerful.'Guardian
'A haunting read but a quite brilliant one.' Independent i
'Intense, brutal and glittering, a call to listen to the voices of the ignored.'Observer
The dancer. The mother. The cop. The artist. The wife.
These women live by countless unspoken rules. How to dress; who to trust; which streets are safe and which are not. The rules grow out of a kaleidoscope of fear, anguish, power, loss and hope. Maybe it is only these rules which keep them alive.
When their neighbourhood is rocked by two murders, the careful existence these women have built for themselves begins to crumble.
'Pochoda turns grief, suffering and loss into art, crafting a literary thriller that is no less compelling for its deep emotional resonance.' Vogue
What readers are saying:
'Gritty and addicting.'
'The kind of storytelling you hope to find in your movie theaters one day.'
'Pochoda weaves a mystery that not only had me turning the page, but dwelling on lines of prose.'
'This book was far from what I was expecting it to be . . . I couldn't tear myself away.'
'I devoured it in one sitting . . . I LOVED IT.'
'This is one of those books that tears into you and doesn't let you go - even after you read the last page.'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fish shack owner Dorian Williams, one of several working-class women at the center of this heartbreaking novel, has done little to fill the void in her life in the 15 years since her teenage daughter, Lecia, was murdered in 1999 the 13th and presumed final victim of a serial killer who was never caught. Then one evening, near her fish shack in South Central L.A., a woman's body is dumped exactly as Lecia was, throat slit and a plastic bag over her face. Without sacrificing narrative drive, Pochoda (Wonder Valley) lets her story unfold organically and impressionistically, through the eyes of her distinctive female characters, who include Julianna, now a hard-partying cocktail waitress but once the child Lecia babysat the night she died; undersized Hispanic LAPD detective Essie, who knows all too well what it's like not to be taken seriously; and former hooker Feelia, left for dead back in 1999 after Lecia's murder, whose potentially critical information the police repeatedly ignore. This deep dive into the lives of women too often unseen in the shadows makes them vividly unforgettable.
