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Elaine Kagan is an actress and writer who has appeared in films and television series, including Traffic, Goodfellas, Absolute Power, ER, and Alias. She is the author of four previous, critically praised novels, The Girls, Blue Heaven, Somebody's Baby, and No Good-Byes. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is currently at work on her next novel and a screenplay.
Losing Mr. North
Married for thirty-one years, Jack and Linda North live on a spread of land seven hours north of Los Angeles. But once a month, this retired police detective and grandfather of four makes the drive to L.A. and another woman --- Rachel, his mistress of six years. For a week, Jack tidies a different lawn, fixes the broken cogs in a different wheel, and makes love to a different woman with a different set of charms. There are no secrets in this triangle -- each knows the names of the players and the rules, and, despite the nagging disapproval of others, the triangle remains stable by tacit consent of all three. Until one hot, dry Monday when Jack leaves to make the monthly drive --- and never shows up. Now, two women who have held tight to their resentment of each other must come together to find the man they love.
Elaine Kagan's Summer Reading List
City of Bones
by Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly's new one.
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
The Emperor of Ocean Park
by Stephen L. Carter
Miss Garnet's Angel
by Sally Vickers
Nine Stories
by J.D. Salinger
Again. I have to read them every couple of years; they haunt me.
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