Epic and lovely : a novel / Mo Daviau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daviau, Mo, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetic disorders--Fiction.

Genetic disorders.

Self-realization in women--Fiction.

Self-realization in women.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

266 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Epic and Lovely is the swan song of Nina Simone Blaine, the daughter of a long-dead 1950s crooner and a failed actress forty years his junior. In what she knows to be the last year of her life, Nina returns home to Los Angeles to spend her final days with The Friends of the Good Thumb, a support group for patients with A12 Fibrillin Deficiency Syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects children of much-older fathers that leaves them with several physical deformities and death around the age of forty. Written as a deathbed letter to the UCLA physician who has lovingly tracked Nina throughout her life, Nina recounts her final days with the group, and with Cole, the fellow A12er with whom she has fallen madly in love. When Nina finally sees Cole's dark heart and malicious nature, she fights rejecting his fictions until she realizes that he has intentionally made the end of her life as hellish as he could imagine. An unlikely alliance with a tech billionaire, the return of her estranged mother, and the birth of the baby she never thought she'd have force Nina to reckon with the triumphs and mistakes of her life, and to fight to leave her child in good hands"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781959000624

1959000624

OCLC:

1516186701