Goldenseal : a novel / Maria Hummel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hummel, Maria, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Female friendship--Fiction.

Female friendship.

Middle-aged women--Fiction.

Middle-aged women.

Psychic trauma--Fiction.

Psychic trauma.

Nineteen nineties--Fiction.

Nineteen nineties.

Secrecy--Fiction.

Secrecy.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Novels

Novels.

Physical Description:

226 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Counterpoint edition.

Other Title:

Golden seal

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Californis : Counterpoint, 2024.

Summary:

"Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing comfort from the public and private traumas that they had each endured and which a newly optimistic world was eager to forget. Told through a continuous, twisting conversation that unfolds over the course of a single evening, in which each woman tells her story and reveals long-hidden secrets, the narratives of Edith and Lacey burn with atmosphere, mystery, resentment, and regret"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781640096066

164009606X

OCLC:

1375643588