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Biographical Note: Praise for Pool House --Rachel Khong, New York Times bestselling author of Real Americans "Choi's prose is unflinching, dynamic, effervescent, and expansive-- Pool House is a magnum opus and a vibe. With delight and melancholy, Choi stretches questions of care, family, and becoming to their outer limits--the novel is a gem of honesty and clarity amidst the messiness of being a person among other people. Choi continues to astound and Pool House is a wonder." --Bryan Washington, author of Palaver "Smart and stylish, Pool House is a fast-moving story of grief, fame, and the mess and meaning of family, told with Choi's trademark wit and insight." --Lisa Ko, award-winning author of Memory Piece "Mary H.K. Choi's Pool House is a deep full-bodied dive into joy. Her clarity, precision, and deep understanding [of the bond] between mothers and daughters [will] leave you underlining whole paragraphs with a trembling hand and calling your best friend to read them aloud. What a sparkling, astonishing novel!" --Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk "The detail and specificity is overwhelming and gorgeous, and it builds to the best possible kind of ending, which is one that I wasn't sitting there anticipating but as soon as it happened, I knew it was the only possible ending. It's just a great, great book." --Linda Holmes, bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over "Choi offers an evocative study of Hollywood in all its seediness and self-importance...An impressive portrait of an ephemeral and savage world." --Kirkus (starred review) "An exquisite mess of mommy issues." --Interview Magazine "This gimlet-eyed family drama has plenty of bite." --Publisher's Weekly "Stevie, Moon, and Adam aren't particularly likable characters. In fact, there's much about Pool House that is purposefully ugly, even painful, written as if poking a wound to see if it oozes... And yet, keeping their company for the duration of the novel is a powerful thing." --Elle Magazine "Isn't it bliss when a novel that is billed as a perfect summer book actually turns out to be one? I'm not sure just yet what the song of the summer is, but the book of the summer is Pool House." --Maris Kreizman, author of I Want to Burn This Place Down Publisher Marketing: AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK - NAMED A MUST READ BOOK FOR SUMMER BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, W MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORK POST, LITHUB, BOOKRIOT, AND MORE! Bestselling young adult author Mary H.K. Choi debuts a brilliantly observed adult novel about mothers, daughters and the complexity of family set against the backdrop of Hollywood Stevie cannot escape her mother. Abandoning college plans to work a dead-end job, her days are a purgatorial bore. Many dream of moving to L.A. and into the spotlight, but Stevie can't wait to move away from it, and her mother's orbit, to start over. Moon is many things: an out-of-work actress, a recovering addict, whatever a mistress becomes when she's widowed, and a mother. Reeling in the aftermath of her lover and TV husband's death, Moon struggles to process her grief. And the last thing she expects is for Stevie to leave her too. Now, neither Stevie nor Moon can afford to quit each other. And their cost of living forces them into a glass-walled pool house in the backyard, while their home is rented out to pay the bills. But when Adam, Moon's former TV son and Stevie's forever crush, arrives for the funeral, the three are pulled into a messy orbit, moving back into the 'Big House' and play-acting a picture-perfect family even as tensions rise and relationships unravel. Pool House is a course charted through the wilderness of motherhood, a story about the challenges of navigating class, fame, burgeoning sexuality, and grief as two women grapple with what it means to grow up and grow older in Hollywood. Review Citations:
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