Lauren la capra biography book

“With this gem of a novel, Acampora cements herself as a thrilling voice in fiction.”—Booklist, starred review

Celebrated by the Boston Globe as “a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs,” the seductively weird and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the lush world that got us all hooked on NPR Best Book of the Year The Wonder Garden, drawing us into the secret lives of a polished Connecticut haven and jolting us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide

Formerly a model and photographer trying to make it in New York, Louisa Rader is back in her affluent hometown of Nearwater, Connecticut, where she's married to a successful older architect, raising a preteen daughter, and trying to vitalize the provincial local art center.

As the years pass, she's grown restless in her safe and comfortable routine, haunted by the flash of the life she used to live. When intense and intriguing young artist-environ