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A wildly imaginative, rebellious, and soft tale of independence from the critically acclaimed author of Bad Marie. With each new novel, Marcy Dermansky deploys her "brainy, psychologically innovative" (New York Times) prose to increased and greater heights, and The Red Car is not any exception. Leah is residing in Queens with a possessive husband she doesn't love and a long list of unfulfilled ambitions when she's jolted from a thick ennui with a call from days gone by. Her beloved former boss and good friend, Judy, has died in a car accident and kept Leah her most valued ownership and, as it turns out, the device of Judy's death: a red sports car. Judy was the mentor Leah never expected. She motivated Leah's dreams, analyzed her love life, and eased her into adulthood over long lunches away from the office. Facing the jarring disconnect between the life she expected and the main one she is now actually living, Leah takes off for San Francisco to assert Judy's car. In sprawling times defined by gender, sorrow, and unforeseen joy, Leah revisits previous lives and is in love with searching for a personal she abandoned way back when. Piercing through Leah's surreal haze is the enigmatic tone of voice of Judy, as distinct as ever before, providing wry commentary on Leah's every move. Dermansky evokes yet another edgy, capricious, and attractively haunting heroine - one whose seek out realization is really as wonderfully unstable and hypnotic as the twists and changes of the Pacific Shoreline Highway. Tautly wound, transgressive, and mordantly funny, The Red Car is an incisive exploration of one woman's unusual route to self-discovery.
