Bøger af Rufi Thorpe

"A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world-from the PEN/ Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of The Knockout Queen"--

Best friends Mia and Lorrie Ann couldn't be more different; where Mia is reckless and proudly hard-hearted, Lorrie Ann is kind, serenely beautiful, and seemingly immune to the kind of teenage mistakes that Mia can't help but make. But within a few years, fortunes change. Suddenly, Mia is free to grow up and adventure, falling in and out of love while Lorrie Ann is weighed down by responsibilities at home. And when good, nice, brave Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia must question how well she ever really knew her best friend in the first place.

Amizade entre garotas pode ser intensa e, no caso de Mia e Lorrie Ann, não há dúvidas de que isso é verdade. À medida que crescem, a vida de Mia e Lorrie Ann é preenchida com praia, diversão e passeios ao shopping. Por outro lado, como toda amizade, há conflitos e dores. Mia e Lorrie Ann convivem há muito tempo e possuem personalidades opostas. Mia é a bad girl, vivendo em uma família problemática. Lorrie Ann é linda e amável, quase angelical, e tem uma família que parece ter sido arrancada de um conto de fadas. Mas, quando uma tragédia acontece, a vida perfeita sai fora de controle...

Lucas and Katya were boarding school seniors when, blindingly in love, they decided to have a baby. Seventeen years later, after a decade of absence, Lucas is a weekend dad, newly involved in his daughter Vera's life. But after Vera suffers a terrifying psychotic break at a high school party, Lucas takes her to Lithuania, his grandmother's homeland, for the summer. Here, in the city of Vilnius, Lucas hopes to save Vera from the sorrow of her diagnosis. As he uncovers a secret about his grandmother, a Home Army rebel who escaped Stutthof, Vera searches for answers of her own. Why did Lucas abandon her as a baby? What really happened the night of her breakdown? And who can she trust with the truth? Skillfully weaving family mythology and Lithuanian history with a story of mental illness, inheritance, young love, and adventure, Rufi Thorpe has written a breathtakingly intelligent, emotionally enthralling book.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann.