A Well-Made Bed

Abby Frucht

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Nearly fifteen years after the death of her childhood friend in a violent hit-and-run accident, Noor Khan is still in the midst of struggle. With a failing equestrian business and suspicions of an unfaithful husband, her years of physical and psychological therapies have driven her to cross a line that blurs what is law, and what is right. When Noor's home-steading neighbor, Jaycee, gives her the chance to save her business and her marriage through the underground cocaine market, the two fall into a world of murder, copyright infringement, dementia, and one large wheel of Peruvian cheese that has them trapped in the morally ambiguous lives they may have desired all along.

Book Details

Publisher: Red Hen Press
Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2016
Pages: 320
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.00in - 0.90in - 0.70lb
EAN: 9781597093057
Categories: • Literary• Action & Adventure

About the Author

Frucht, Abby: - Abby Frucht, a judge for this year's Pen Faulkner Awards in Fiction, is a prize winning novelist and essayist who lives on a lake in Wisconsin, has raised two sons, worked as mentor and advisor for twenty years at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and counts her many friendships among women as one of the driving inspirations of her life.

Alberts, Laurie: - Laurie Alberts is the author of three previous novels, two memoirs, a story collection, and a book on the craft of writing. Her work has received the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Award, the Hackney Literary Award, an American Fiction prize, and a James Michener Award. She lives off the grid in Vermont.

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Praise for this book

"The novel deftly navigates between narrators, keeping its momentum even when jumping back and forth in time as the women--and the reader--discover a dark secret that's been hidden away for 15 years. The storyline hurtles forward at a steady pace, keeping the reader engaged and managing to answer questions while creating new ones. . . . an absorbing read. A weighty tale that keeps the reader intrigued and entranced."

--Kirkus Reviews

"A Well-Made Bed depicts an eclectic, morally dubious collection of characters . . . (who) exhibit a wily, formidable strength as they scrape their way out of bad situations, making the best of the cards they've been dealt"

--ShelfAwareness

"Lovers of literary fiction will appreciate the fullness of the characters, the topsy-turvy plot twists, and the thought-provoking themes."

--Foreword Reviews

"Frucht and Alberts construct a narrative that subverts genre conventions to effectively tell a new version of an old story, one with enough surprising prose to satisfy a wide variety of readers."

--Northwest Review of Books