\u201cBighearted, rambunctious . . . a bustling tale of American reinvention . . . If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u2014The Washington Post<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cBloom\u2019s crisp, delicious prose gives [Lucky Us] the feel of sprawling, brawling life itself. . . . Lucky Us is a sister act, which means a double dose of sauce and naughtiness from the brilliant Amy Bloom.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u2014The Oregonian<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n“A tasty summer read that will leave you smiling . . . Broken hearts [are] held together by lipstick, wisecracks and the enduring love of sisters.”<\/em><\/p>\n\u2014USA Today<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\u201cIn an exquisitely imagined novel, Amy Bloom wows\u2026[a] kaleidoscopic take on life in the tumultuous \u201840s\u2026LUCKY US is a tale of a family weathering tragedies intimate and global.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u2014O: The Oprah Magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cFast-paced, fun and heart-tugging.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u2014Good Housekeeping<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n“\u2026sharp, sparsely beautiful scenes that excitingly defy expectation, and part of the pleasure of reading [Amy Bloom] is simply keeping up with her. You won\u2019t know where Lucky Us is headed until, suddenly, it\u2019s there.”<\/em><\/p>\n-Janet Maslin, The New York Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n“To read Bloom\u2019s fiction is to experience afresh how life is ruled by chance and composed of spare parts that are purposed and repur\u00adposed in uncanny ways\u2014it\u2019s a \u00adfestival of joy and terror and lust and amazement that \u00adresolves itself here, warts and all, in a kind of crystalline \u00adMozartean clarity of vision.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u2014Elle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n“A hard-luck coming-of-age story with heart.”<\/em><\/p>\n-Kirkus<\/em>, starred review<\/strong><\/p>\n“Told partially from Eva\u2019s perspective and with epistolary interludes over the novel\u2019s 1939-49 span, Eva\u2019s world is one of endless opportunities for reinvention\u2014and redemption\u2014if one only takes them. Spare and trusting, Bloom invited readers to fill the spaces her pretty prose allows, with true and beautiful results.”<\/em><\/p>\n-Booklist<\/em>, starred review<\/strong><\/p>\n“For her latest, Bloom offers something unrepentantly quirky, a madcap romp complete with road trips, secret identities, aspiring Hollywood starlets, and a tarot card-reading fake psychic\u2026At its core, this is a novel of resilience, with the war serving as both a life-changing event and no more than the background noise of an impoverished existence. Full of intriguing characters and lots of surprises\u2026readers of literary fiction and 20th-century historical\u2026will find it an excellent choice.”<\/em><\/p>\n-Library Journal<\/em>, starred review<\/strong><\/p>\n“This is a poignant book that manages to be funny, an unflinching portrait that manages to be tender, a tough story that manages to also have jazz and grace. Bloom is a great writer who keeps stepping into new territory, entirely unafraid. She is one of America\u2019s unique and most gifted literary voices.”<\/em><\/p>\n-Colum McCann<\/strong><\/p>\n“Lucky Us is a remarkable accomplishment. One waits a long time for a novel of this scope and dimension, replete with surgically drawn characters, a mix of comedy and tragedy that borders on the miraculous, and sentences that should be in a sentence museum. Amy Bloom is a national treasure.<\/em>“<\/p>\n-Michael Cunningham<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUCKY US \u2014 Available in Paperback New York Times Bestseller\u00a0\u2022 Named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post\u00a0and O: The Oprah Magazine Order Your Copy About Lucky Us “My father\u2019s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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