The Nobodies Album

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Octavia Frost is no stranger to life's twists of fate.

She has mourned a husband and a daughter.

She has watched her son become a rock star, following his progress through gossip magazines: they have not spoken in four years.

And in her own, less spectacular way, she has built a name for herself as a writer.

But the news she receives today will make her rethink everything. And though the situation seems bleak, it could give her a chance to redeem the mistakes she's made in the past. She may still have time to bring her own story to a different ending.

Reviews

Not just a book about a novelist in action, it's also a meditation on writing itself and on the curious intersections between the imagined world and the real one. . .brisk and engaging. . .the book succeeds in probing nuanced issues of guilt and innocence through an intricate collage of memories and musings. . .Those are some real mysteries, well worth grappling with. - Washington Post

A massively readable and thought-provoking story - Heat four-star review

Emotionally charged...moving and poignant - Stylist

Sharp and engaging...a gleaming alloy of mystery and confessional...Guilt and (mostly parental) responsibility emerge as powerful themes to unite the two traumas of a well-paced and convincingly populated novel - Independent

Author Bio

Carolyn Parkhurst's fiction has appeared in the North American Review, Minnesota Review, Hawai'i Review and the Crescent Review. She is the author of LORELEI'S SECRET (published in the US as THE DOGS OF BABEL) and Lost and Found, which were both New York Times bestsellers. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and their son.