{"product_id":"in-the-lobby-of-the-dream-hotel-isbn-9781646222339","title":"In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young mother finds herself caught between a love affair and the wrath of her husband, who will do anything to put an end to it—even use his wife's bipolar diagnosis against her\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen faced with newfound feelings for Theo, the drummer of her band, married young mother Portia must decide whether to follow her heart or question her sanity. Going off her medication feels like waking up for the first time. But could this clarity be harmless daydreaming, or a symptom of something more serious?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePortia’s husband, a well-respected prosecutor in their small Vermont town, is convinced of the latter. He retaliates, initiating an intervention, claiming that Portia’s behavior is proof of her bipolar disorder. With lawyer-like cunning, he uses elements from her past to break her resolve until she agrees to being committed to a psychiatric hospital. In the hospital, Portia’s sense of reality is tested, and hard truths about her marriage, her love for Theo, and her most vulnerable hopes and desires are revealed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Lobby of the Dream Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is a potent and at times devastating story of stark tenderness. Written like a dream, this novel brings us toward new understandings of the flawed, yearning, multifaceted self.\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Vermont Book Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Plunkett applies a soft touch when rendering minds in turmoil, offering both reader and character relief through the escapes of music, love and small-town landscape.\" —Wadzanai Mhute, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] absorbing novel . . . [A] portrait of a distinctive female imagination navigating the world in which she finds herself, both by choice and not.\" —Amy Lilly, \u003ci\u003eSeven Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Portia’s observations are nothing if not sensual, if not original offerings for the reader.\" —Geri Lipschultz, \u003ci\u003eAtticus Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bracing . . . Plunkett’s vivid narrative is an intense, dizzying exploration into elusive realities and volatile truths.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] perceptive debut novel . . . An incisive portrait of mental health and the search for autonomy.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A nuanced portrait of one woman’s years of mental and social struggle.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Genevieve Plunkett's \u003ci\u003eIn the Lobby of the Dream Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is an engrossing read that takes readers into the heart of what it means to be a mother, a wife, a creative being, a human with a heart that longs for more. Plunkett's prose sparkles in every paragraph and kept me turning the pages long after my bedtime. Most importantly, her nuanced treatment of the decisions that people managing mental illness must make every day will comfort, inspire, entertain, and enlighten readers.\" —Christie Tate, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGroup\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Lobby of the Dream Hotel \u003c\/i\u003eis a spellbinding novel, alive with feeling and discovery. Plunkett orchestrates an enrapturing story of a woman and mother tethered to a reality she would rather escape with bold jumps in time, nuanced observation, and flights of imagination. A book as much about the mundanities that trap us as it is about creativity’s promise of freedom, \u003ci\u003eIn the Lobby of the Dream Hotel \u003c\/i\u003eis an absolutely brilliant feat. I can’t wait to see what Plunkett does next.\" —Rachel Yoder, author of \u003ci\u003eNightbitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Lobby of the Dream Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is a beating heart of flowing paths and urgent questions: how do we tell the difference between our dreams, our fantasies, and our possible futures? How do we step from one life into another, not knowing if the earth under our feet will hold? In this sensitive, suspenseful novel, Genevieve Plunkett fearlessly dances between past and present, between wanting and having, between loves laced with cruelty and loves aching with tenderness and possibility.\" —Caitlin Horrocks, author of \u003ci\u003eLife Among the Terranauts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Lobby of the Dream Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly brilliant novel. This is a story about madness and music, forbidden love, entrapment and escape–all written in Plunkett’s electric and propulsive prose. It’s the most compelling novel I’ve read all year; I couldn’t put it down. Stunning.\" —Anna Hogeland, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Long Answer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn the Lobby of the Dream Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e mesmerized me: the quicksilver music of its language, the keenness of its observation, the richness of its empathy. Plunkett has made her protagonist's interior world into a whole lush landscape and filled it with desire, loss, tenderness, humor, and tragedy. The result is a novel full of wild, irresistible life.\" —Clare Beams, author of\u003ci\u003e The Illness Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGENEVIEVE PLUNKETT\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003ePrepare Her: Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best Small Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as journals such as \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Vermont with her two children.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300687007973,"sku":"NP9781646222339","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781646222339.jpg?v=1767729974","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/in-the-lobby-of-the-dream-hotel-isbn-9781646222339","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}