

A series of mysterious events forces Cherry to abandon their baby, leaving Ray to raise Opal alone. But escaping their past won’t be so easy. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her son, Ray, and his pregnant lover, Cherry, to flee their home for Los Angeles and reinvent themselves far from Ursa’s insidious influence. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950’s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. She can travel through memory and revisit her past.

What I Learned: It’s better to leave the past in the pastįrom New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape of California Reason for Rating: A highly original story that was weird and whimsical, I had to know what was going to happen next
