Pool House: A Novel

ISBN: 1250800447

Author: Choi, Mary H.K.

Condition: New

AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK NAMED A MUST READ BOOK FOR SUMMER BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, W MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORK POST, LITHUB, BOOKRIOT, AND MORE!"A sharp, hilarious, unsparing mother-daughter story."-Rachel Khong, New York Times bestselling author of Real Americans"Its time we recognize Mary H.K. Choi as an auteur."-Michelle Zauner, New York Times bestselling author of Crying in H MartBestselling young adult author Mary H.K. Choi debuts a brilliantly observed adult novel about mothers, daughters and the complexity of family set against the backdrop of HollywoodStevie cannot escape her mother. Abandoning college plans to work a dead-end job, her days are a purgatorial bore. Many dream of moving to L.A. and into the spotlight, but Stevie cant wait to move away from it, and her mothers orbit, to start over.Moon is many things: an out-of-work actress, a recovering addict, whatever a mistress becomes when shes widowed, and a mother. Reeling in the aftermath of her lover and TV husbands death, Moon struggles to process her grief. And the last thing she expects is for Stevie to leave her too.Now, neither Stevie nor Moon can afford to quit each other. And their cost of living forces them into a glass-walled pool house in the backyard, while their home is rented out to pay the bills. But when Adam, Moons former TV son and Stevies forever crush, arrives for the funeral, the three are pulled into a messy orbit, moving back into the Big House and play-acting a picture-perfect family even as tensions rise and relationships unravel.Pool House is a course charted through the wilderness of motherhood, a story about the challenges of navigating class, fame, burgeoning sexuality, and grief as two women grapple with what it means to grow up and grow older in Hollywood.