The Coast of Akron: A Novel

Name: The Coast of Akron: A Novel
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Rating: 3.4 (19 reviews)
Author: Miller, Adrienne

by Miller, Adrienne

Literary Fiction

3.4 (19)

405 pages~6.8 hr readPublished by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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About this book

Adrienne Miller's debut novel introduces the Haven family of Akron, Ohio. Lowell Haven is a seducer and self-proclaimed aristocrat who became a world-famous artist known for painting himself. His former wife Jenny was once a brilliant artist but is now a broken woman carrying a secret. Five years ago, Lowell mysteriously stopped painting, and the art world wants to know why. The answer involves Merit, Lowell and Jenny's daughter, who is fleeing her family. Fergus, Lowell's partner and Jenny's ex-best friend, hopes to bring Merit home to the sixty-five-room faux-Tudor mansion they share. He plans a lavish party for Midwestern society as an excuse, but his grandiose delusions threaten the event, and his choice to invite a particular guest risks catastrophe. Spanning from 1970s London to present-day Ohio, the novel explores the human desire to possess what cannot be owned, told through sharp humor and emotional depth.

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Currently 3.4★ from 19 reviews

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