The Lola Quartet
the enthralling novel of love and music from the author of Station Eleven
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Publisher Description
‘Percolates with suspense’ - The New York Times
Full of shocking twists and secrets, The Lola Quartet asks the universal question: how far would you go for someone you love? From Emily St. John Mandel, the author of Station Eleven.
When Gavin discovers the existence of a young girl from his hometown who looks uncannily like him - and shares the surname of his high-school girlfriend, Anna - he is propelled back into the past. Could this girl be his daughter? But there are other secrets from the past that remain unanswered. Gavin was part of a jazz group known as ‘The Lola Quartet’, and Anna disappeared on the night of their last concert together.
As Gavin goes deeper to seek answers from those he left behind, he will uncover truths far darker than he ever imagined.
‘Elegant and hypnotic . . . Mandel brilliantly modulates the heightening suspense in a novel that remains, above all, an elegy for lost innocence’ - The Washington Post
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mandel (The Singer's Gun) strikes a confident chord in her third novel. Ten years after graduating from a performing arts high school in Florida, the members of the Lola Quartet are far from the futures they imagined during their final jazz concert in school. Gavin, who fled south Florida's stifling heat for New York, returns after losing his journalism job in disgrace to learn that he may be the father of a 10-year-old girl named Chloe. As he investigates Chloe and her mother's whereabouts, he attempts to reconnect with his Lola friends, all coping with disillusion: Daniel has divorced twice; Jack and Sasha have succumbed to addiction. Gavin's sentiment that "real people are so goddamn disappointing" not only explains his penchant for plagiarizing his articles but also applies to the adult lives of Mandel's characters. The author again melds mystery plotting with literary techniques like shifting points-of-view, resulting in both sophistication and suspense; the mystery doesn't quite pay off, but Mandel's novel excels as a character study that considers the slow degradation of hopes, dreams, and expectations of people who are only in their late 20s but already feel ancient.
