The paths of two women on opposite ends of a high-profile sexual abuse scandal set them on a devastating collision course.
Lucky Dogs asks and answers a shattering question: How could one woman so utterly betray another?.
The issues are universal, but the core of the story is intimate: a passionate exploration of love, betrayal, and survival.
In a story that unfolds with unexpected humor and the pace of a thriller, acclaimed novelist Helen Schulman lays bare what happens to women--no matter how fortunate they may appear to be on the surface--whose lives have been warped by brutality and misogyny.
But both are very, very wrong.
They each think they know who they are dealing with.
Both women have been victims of male violence, and both are warriors--one trained and calculating, one instinctually ferocious.
When leering male tourists hassle the pair, the blonde pulls out a knife and a sisterhood is born.
The other, a troubled American TV star, is hiding her beauty and identity under a shapeless sweatshirt, wearing sunglasses even in the darkness.
One is tall, fair, striking, with an indeterminate accent. -- Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Candy House On a sultry summer night in Paris, two women meet in line at an ice cream kiosk on the Ile de la Cité.
This is Helen Schulman\'s best novel yet.
Part thriller, part Hollywood satire, Lucky Dogs is a brash, sometimes heartbreaking saga in which trauma and self-preservation converge across decades and continents.
The paths of two women on opposite ends of a high-profile sexual abuse scandal set them on a devastating collision course
