Eight-year-old Edgar Allan Fini is haunted – by his father\'s absence, his mother\'s secrets, and the ghosts of his grandmother\'s past.
Edgar & Lucy will make you feel things you haven\'t felt in ages\' Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West.\'This otherworldly tale will haunt you\' People..
Salinger, Lorrie Moore, Karen Russell, even James Joyce.
What this book has to say about love and truth will stay with me for a very, very long time\' Sophie McManus, bestselling author of The Unfortunates.\'This tale exerts a fiendish grip on the reader\' Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew\'s Last Stand.\'Brings to mind J.
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The book pushes the boundaries of beauty\' Chicago Tribune.\'A quirky coming-of-age novel that deepens into something dark and strange without losing its heart or its sense of wonder\' Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of The Leftovers.\'I tore through the luminous pages of Edgar & Lucy as if possessed ...
An unusual and intimate epic that manages to capture the wonder and terror of both child and parenthood with an uncanny clarity\' Lena Dunham, bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl.\'Wonder-filled and magisterial ...
Profoundly spiritual and hilariously specific ...
A riveting and exuberant ride\' New York Times Book Review.\'I love this book. with delicate, precise observations and unexpected imagery\' Sunday Times.\'On every page Lodato\'s prose sings with a robust, openhearted wit, making Edgar & Lucy a delight to read ...
There is poetry on every page ...
Lucy must confront the demons that plague her, to save her son and herself.
Tinged with wonder and a dark fairytale heart, Edgar and Lucy is a gripping coming-of-age story about the painful and loving ties that bind us.
Praise for Edgar and Lucy:\'Gorgeous.
But he recalls nothing of the accident about which people still whisper.
When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, he is drawn deep into a damaged, grief-stricken world.
Eight-year-old Edgar Allan Fini is haunted – by his father\'s absence, his mother\'s secrets, and the ghosts of his grandmother\'s past