{"product_id":"9781427282217","title":"Edgar and Lucy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eI love this book\u003c\/b\u003e. Profoundly spiritual and hilariously specific...an unusual and intimate epic that manages to capture the wonder and terror of both child and parenthood with an uncanny clarity.\" — Lena Dunham, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNot That Kind of Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdgar and Lucy \u003c\/i\u003eis a page-turning literary masterpiece—a stunning examination of family love and betrayal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear—not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son, Lucy has no choice but to confront the demons of her past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfound, shocking, and beautiful, \u003ci\u003eEdgar and Lucy \u003c\/i\u003eis a thrilling adventure and the unlikeliest of love stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This tale gradually exerts \u003cb\u003ea fiendish grip\u003c\/b\u003e on the reader.\" — Helen Simonson, author of \u003ci\u003eMajor Pettigrew's Last Stand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I tore through the luminous pages of \u003ci\u003eEdgar and Lucy\u003c\/i\u003e as if possessed…What this book has to say about love and truth will stay with me for a very, very long time.\" — Sophie McManus, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unfortunates\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A quirky coming-of-age novel that deepens into something dark and strange without losing its \u003cb\u003eheart \u003c\/b\u003eor its \u003cb\u003esense of wonder\u003c\/b\u003e.\" — Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Leftovers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Victor Lodato may be our bard of the sadness, humor, and confusion of loss. He senses the absurdities and elation of mourning and childhood with a capacious precision that \u003cb\u003ebrings to mind J.D. Salinger, Lorrie Moore, Karen Russell, even James Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003eEdgar and Lucy\u003c\/i\u003e will make you feel things you haven't felt in ages.\" — Daniel Torday, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Flight of Poxl West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis program is read by the author. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As with all my work, \u003ci\u003eEdgar and Lucy\u003c\/i\u003e started with the character’s voices, and the rhythms of their particular ways of speaking... because I have this very distinct sense of the sound and rhythms of \u003ci\u003eEdgar and Lucy\u003c\/i\u003e, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to record the audiobook. Also, having grown up in New Jersey, I felt I could do justice to the world of the novel, and to the north Jersey accent.\" — Author Victor Lodato on why he chose to narrate his own novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025879351536,"sku":"9781427282217","price":36.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781427282217_p0.jpg?v=1763750280","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781427282217","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}