Emily St. John Mandel

Returning home to Florida, Gavin Sasaki takes a job with his sister brokering foreclosed properties when he discovers a child who may be his daughter by his ex-girlfriend who fled 10 years ago after stealing money from a drug dealer. 15,000 first printing.

The Lola Quartet

This completes my reading of all of Emily St. John Mandel's novels. Suffice to say: I'm a fan. This book, like her others, has it all: flowing prose, an engaging plot, and characters that are rich yet realistic. 

Frederik De Bosschere

Martha F.

Very very different from Station Eleven, the first Emily St. John Mandel book that I ever read. It lacked a little of that book's atmosphere, but was still totally un-put-downable. I found myself sneaking away to read parts of it on a weekend away with friends.

How far would you go for someone you love?The Lola Quartet: Jack, Daniel, Sasha and Gavin, four talented musicians at the end of their high school careers. On the dream-like night of their last concert, Gavin's girlfriend Anna disappears. Ten years later Gavin sees a photograph of a little girl who looks uncannily like him and who shares Anna's surname, and suddenly he finds himself catapulted back to a secretive past he didn't realise he'd left behind. But that photo has set off a cascade of dangerous consequences and, as one by one the members of the Lola Quartet are reunited, a terrifying story emerges: of innocent mistakes, of secrecy and of a life lived on the run. Filled with love, music and thwarted dreams, Emily St. John Mandel's The Lola Quartet is a thrilling novel about how the errors of the past can threaten the future.

zilver 

3 - 3.5 | felt like she's still getting her footing in this one. definitely some magical bits but as a whole it lacked that all encompassing feeling when it came to the characters and world, which is what i love so much about her other work. makes me so curious about the singer's gun!

ben wolfson

Sam 🌙

How far would you go for someone you love? The Lola Quartet: Jack, Daniel, Sasha and Gavin, four talented musicians at the end of their high school careers. On the dream-like night of their last concert, Gavin's girlfriend Anna disappears. Ten years later Gavin sees a photograph of a little girl who looks uncannily like him and who shares Anna's surname, and suddenly he finds himself catapulted back to a secretive past he didn't realize he'd left behind. But that photo has set off a cascade of dangerous consequences and, as one by one the members of the Lola Quartet are reunited, a terrifying story emerges: of innocent mistakes, of secrecy and of a life lived on the run. Filled with love, music and thwarted dreams, Emily St. John Mandel's The Lola Quartet is a thrilling novel about how the errors of the past can threaten the future.

The Lola Quartet

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