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AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK "A sharp, hilarious, unsparing mother-daughter story."—Rachel Khong, New York Ti me s bestselling author of Real Americans "It's time we recognize Mary H.K. Choi as an auteur."—Michelle Zauner, New York Times bestselling author of Crying in H Mart Bestselling young adult author Mary H.K. Choi debuts a brilliantly observed adult novel about mothers, daughters and the complexity of family set against the backdrop of Hollywood Stevie cannot escape her mother. Abandoning college plans to work a dead-end job, her days are a purgatorial bore. Many dream of moving to L.A. and into the spotlight, but Stevie can't wait to move away from it, and her mother's orbit, to start over. Moon is many things: an out-of-work actress, a recovering addict, whatever a mistress becomes when she's widowed, and a mother. Reeling in the aftermath of her lover and TV husband's death