{"product_id":"lurkers-isbn-9781641293518","title":"Lurkers","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary \u003ci\u003eShirkers, \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe residents of Santa Claus Lane do their best to stay out of each other’s way, but desire, fury and mischief too often propel these suburban neighbors to collide. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide, and they must fight to keep their home; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; a sardonic gay horror novelist finds that aging is more terrifying than any monster; and a white hippie mom and her adopted Vietnamese daughter realize that their anger binds them rather than pushes them apart.\u003ci\u003e Lurkers\u003c\/i\u003e is an homage to the rangy beauty of Los Angeles and the surprising power that we have to change the lives of those around us.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“How is \u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e simultaneously hilarious and horrifying? I’ll tell you how: PURE  GENIUS. Sandi Tan populates Santa Claus Lane, her leafy corner of  suburban LA, with such viscerally original characters that I found  myself laughing at their outrageousness while nodding at their familiar  humanity. Every page of this wildly original book is a surprise and a  delight.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCrazy Rich Asians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Completely original and unpredictable . . . Sandi Tan is one of the freshest voices out there.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Today Show\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Riveting storytelling opens a portal into the private lives of a diverse and remarkable cast of characters.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e affirms Tan as a deft and impressively rangy storyteller with an unfettered imagination, eager to flay open the more disturbing aspects of human nature and suffering . . . Part of the pleasure of reading \u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e is the queasiness of parsing the darkly comic from the just plain dark.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The themes that commonly occupy [Tan's] work remain consistent: the celebration of adolescence as a time of bold, uninhibited experimentation; the desire to shrink from the 9-to-5 world in favor of the land of dreams, and the delights of \u003ci\u003esui generis\u003c\/i\u003eself-creation . . . Tan scans America with the eye of someone who is inside the fold enough to speak its language, but can also pick apart a culture from the outside.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Darkly funny.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWoman's Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sandi Tan’s \u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e is an acid-etched \u003ci\u003eAmerican Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e for our current moment. But rather than suburban white male dread, \u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e excavates the deeper mysteries and dark humor of female desire and a cultural and existential desperation so heavy it takes both tragedy and catastrophe to root it loose. A sneaky marvel of a novel and not to be missed.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Megan Abbott, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGive Me Your Hand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The sheer chaotic energy of \u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e belies a considerable degree of control and\u003cbr\u003estructure . . . Yet \u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e has a surprisingly endearing ending you wish you could see more of. This slice of sunshine noir possesses its own demented charm.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Straits Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e shifts kaleidoscopically between the residents of Santa Claus Lane . . . This narrative rotation allows the reader to see all characters from all vantage points—like peering out of an open window onto the street, blessed with total omniscience.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hazlitt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Spanning generations living on the Los Angeles street of Santa Claus Lane, \u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves the closed-off lives of neighbors to braid a rich tapestry of place and how that becomes unwittingly shaped and colored by those around us.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Thrillist \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These characters propel the narrative forward and are simultaneously repulsive and fascinating . . . They are layered, well-observed, and often flawed, but always in ways that are wince-inducingly recognizable.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—PopMatters \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book unfolds as a series of episodic character studies among the denizens of Santa Claus Lane, an idyllic-seeming suburban neighborhood in Los Angeles. The eclectic cast of characters and Tan’s vivid-yet-unassuming style play like a magic trick, and the way the characters’ lives eventually come together is all the more poignant for its unexpectedness.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Arts Fuse\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e is a heartbreaking delight. The intricately woven stories and characters here are funny and horrifying, weird and wise. I tore through this novel—Tan is a visionary with an imagination I would follow anywhere.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Dark Vanessa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A magisterial triumph from the inimitable Sandi Tan, \u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e is brimming with sinister pathos and dead-on, laugh-out-loud observations.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Elif Batuman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I loved \u003ci\u003eShirkers\u003c\/i\u003e and I now love \u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e . . . Briskly entertaining and genuinely funny, there's something funny or weird or crushing on practically every page.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ed Park, author of \u003ci\u003ePersonal Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLurkers\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable book. It's funny, sad, vicious,  generous, at times genuinely scary, at times absolutely  heartbreaking—often, all on the same page. Sandi Tan somehow manages to  perfectly capture the twisted, infuriating, beautiful soul of Southern  California in the mid-aughts with all its seemingly irreconcilable  contradictions . . . The fictional inhabitants of Santa Claus Lane are so  well wrought that you find yourself convinced that if you just drove  around long enough, you might find them hanging around in a living room  or a liquor store just outside of LA.” \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Justin Kuritzkes, author of \u003ci\u003eFamous People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A sharp-eyed exploration of the influence of people and place on us all and considersthe importance of home.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Tan  carefully builds Alta Vista’s intersecting lives and smoothly taps into  three generations of voices . . . Tan’s powers of observation make this  outing worthwhile.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Black Isle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Black Isle\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegant, disturbing and satisfying read, both epic and intimate.”\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Beautifully written, with a storyline that spans 70 years, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Isle\u003c\/i\u003e is a historical novel that is both breathtaking and haunting.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Mesmerizing . . . A gripping historical novel . . . Tan’s imagination seems boundless.”\u003cbr\u003e ―\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Pick of the Week\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A young woman grows old with the twentieth century, haunting her own life as history conspires to render her a secret. Sweeping in scope, impressively imagined, ruthlessly readable.”\u003cbr\u003e ―\u003cb\u003eSteve Erickson, author of \u003ci\u003eThese Dreams of You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSandi Tan\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Singapore. She directed the Netflix film \u003ci\u003eShirkers\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, was named Best Documentary by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and was shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Documentary. \u003ci\u003eThe Black Isle\u003c\/i\u003e was her debut novel. 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