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Alden
Warren is a Cape Cod year-rounder who works in the bookstore for the National Parks
Service and spends her spare time volunteering—keeping track of the local seagull
population and delivering Meals on Wheels to Hyram, a well-known activist known as the
Green Grandpa. Two years ago, her new husband, Monty, disappeared without warning.
Everyone in town knows that Monty wasn’t exactly faithful, and they’re all sure that
Monty just left with another woman. And while Alden been waiting for his return —
calling amnesia hotlines and watching true-crime shows to look for him ever since, what
she wants more than anything else is to become a foster parent, to love and care for a
child.
As she makes her way through a long line of men who help her
temporarily forget Monty, Alden meets Lux Davis, a landscape worker with a neurological
disorder and a past he’s trying to keep buried. Alden and Lux, share so much in
common—their dark, troubled past, their longing to find acceptance and perfect love—that
they’re powerfully (and maybe even irrationally) drawn together. But Lux’s dark secret
is in danger of being uncovered, and Alden’s despair and her desire to overcome her past
grow out of control.
At times dark and haunting, at others charged and
sensual, Lux has a feeling of desperation throughout. The mysterious, natural
setting of off-season Cape Cod only adds to the darkness and mystery surrounding the
dysfunctional characters, who tend to sometimes be a bit difficult to follow. Lux
is by no means a light, quick read, but you may find that the richly written setting
alone makes this melancholy novel worth your time.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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