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Product Identifiers
PublisherTouchstone
ISBN-101501157809
ISBN-139781501157806
eBay Product ID (ePID)229136913
Product Key Features
Book TitleIn the Midnight Room : a Novel
TopicContemporary Women, General, Literary
Publication Year2017
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorLaura Mcbride
FormateBook
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-450476
Dewey Edition23
eBook FormatEPUB
Reviews"I'm not one to pull out the term "Great American Novel," but Laura McBride's sublime 'ROUND MIDNIGHT demands nothing less. Gorgeous, engrossing, moving, and at times wickedly funny, this brilliant novel pulled me in and didn't let me go until the shattering final sentence. This is the novel you need to read right now."
Dewey Decimal813.6
Synopsis"If McBride is trying to prove--that if you change one life, you change the world--she succeeds magnificently."-- Booklist From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise comes a "jewel of a novel" ( BookPage ) about four vivid and complicated women in Las Vegas whose lives become connected by secrets, courage, tragedies, and small acts of kindness. Fun-loving and rebellious, twenty-one-year-old June Stein abandons the safe world of her New Jersey childhood for edgy 1950s Las Vegas. For the next 60 years, June will dare to live boldly. She will upend conventions, risk her heart and her life, rear a child, lose a child, love more than one man, and stand up for more than one woman. June's story will intertwine with those of three unlikely strangers: a one-time mail order bride from the Philippines, a high school music teacher, and a young mother from Mexico working as a hotel maid. Knit together around June's explosive secret, they forge a future that none of them foresee. This jubilant, compassionate novel explores the unexpected ways that life connects us, changes us, and even perfects us. A powerful story of lust and of hope, of redemption and of compassion, In the Midnight Room is a smart, sagacious novel about womanhood, family bonds, and how we live in America now., From the author of We Are Called to Rise comes a novel about the interconnected lives of four women in Las Vegas, each of whom experiences a life-changing moment at a classic casino nightclub. What is it about the Midnight Room? In a choreographic tour de force, Laura McBride twirls four women through a Las Vegas nightclub, turning their separate lives into a suspenseful, intricate dance of mothers, daughters, wives, and lovers. The One Who Falls in Love: June hires a charismatic black man to sing at her club, but her fast-paced lifestyle runs aground as racial tensions mount. The One Who Gets Lucky: Honorata leaves the Philippines as a mail-order bride, then strikes it rich in the Midnight Room. The One Whose Heart Is Broken: Engracia finds bad luck in the Midnight Room and becomes enmeshed in Honorata's secrets when she confronts a man with a gun. The One Who Always Wondered: Coral struggles with her mysterious past until a desire to help Engracia steers her to the Midnight Room. Wise and heartbreaking, jubilant and loving, 'Round Midnight is about the intensity and intimacy of four women's lives, lives that are connected by secrets, courage, tragedies, and small acts of kindness. This brilliantly conceived, passionately written novel will resonate long after you turn the final page.
LC Classification NumberPS3613.C284R68 2018
