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Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling provocative novel exploring sexuality gender and maternal ambivalence from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People
In the best books characters feel like my friends but with the mothers of The Spectacular they came to feel like my familyTorrey Peters author of Detransition Baby
Its 1997 and Missy is a cellist in an indie rock band on tour across America At twentytwo years old she gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous As the only girl in the band shes determined to party just as hard as everyone else loving and leaving a guy in every town But then she meets a tomboy drummer who is hard to forget and a forgotten flap of cocaine strands her at the border
Fortysomething Carola is just surfacing from a sex scandal at the yoga center where she has been living when she sees her daughter Missy for the first time in ten yearson the cover of a music magazine
Ruth is eightythree and planning her return to the Turkish seaside village where she spent her childhood But when her granddaughter Missy winds up crashing at her house she decides its time that the strong and stubborn women in her family find a way to understand one another again
In this sharply observed novel Zoe Whittall captures three very different women who each struggle to build an authentic life Definitions of family romance gender and love will radically change as they seek out lives that are nothing less than spectacular
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