From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I\'m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a thoroughly delightfully, surprisingly profound ( Entertainment Weekly ) one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.
Beagin is a wonderfully funny writer who also happens to tackle serious subjects (NPR)..
Jen Beagin\'s Vacuum in the Dark is an unforgettable, astonishing read, by turns nutty and forlorn...
Brash, deadpan, and achingly troubled ( O, The Oprah Magazine ).
Neither is so easy to get rid of.
The only problems are Dark and her past.
As she tries to get over the heartache of her affair and the older pains of her youth, Mona winds up on an eccentric, moving journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her beginnings where she attempts to unlock the key to having a sense of home in the future.
There\'s also the Hungarian artist couple who--with her addiction to painkillers and his lingering stares--reminds Mona of troubling aspects of her childhood, and some of the underlying reasons her life had to be restarted in the first place.
Dark and his wife aren\'t the only complicated clients on Mona\'s roster, either.
He also might be a little unstable.
This one she calls Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Mona\'s clients.
For one thing, she\'s got another bad boyfriend.
Disgusting, long story--and her efforts to restart her life since haven\'t exactly gone as planned.
She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend--a junkie named Mr.
Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico.
Soon to be an FX television show starring Lola Kirke.
From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I\'m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a thoroughly delightfully, surprisingly profound ( Entertainment Weekly ) one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life
