Time's Mouth (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781640095724)

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize

From New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape of California

Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950's California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. Yet Ursa's powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her son, Ray, and his pregnant lover, Cherry, to flee their home for Los Angeles and reinvent themselves far from Ursa's insidious influence. But escaping their past won't be so easy. A series of mysterious events forces Cherry to abandon their baby, leaving Ray to raise Opal alone.

Now a teenager and still heartbroken over the abandonment of the mother she never knew, Opal must journey into her own past to reveal the generations of secrets that gave rise to the shimmering source of her family's painful legacy.

From the forests of Santa Cruz, to the 1980s glam of Melrose Avenue to a solitary mansion among the oil derricks off La Cienega Boulevard, and brimming with the double-edged capacity of memory to both heal and harm, Time's Mouth is a poignant and evocative excavation of the bonds that bind families together.

Author: Edan Lepucki
ISBN-10: 1640095721
ISBN-13: 9781640095724
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2023 pg. 17
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 06/19/2023
Library Journal 06/01/2023 pg. 108
Booklist 07/01/2023 pg. 21
BookPage 08/01/2023