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Four Terrible Parents: An addictive story of love, jealousy and the curse of trying to have it all | 'Brilliant' Kim Gordon

Calla Henkel

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USA, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A stylish, twisty, and darkly humorous novel exploring what happens when the dream of starting your own family turns into a nightmare.

What happens when the dream of starting your own family turns into a nightmare?

Valentine and Raul have been touring in their indie-sleaze band SEZME since their college days, but as they enter their early forties priorities change. It's time to move out of Berlin and start settling down. Raul is ready to marry his partner, Banner, and Valentine wants to start a family with her on-and-off-again partner, Linh, but she isn't quite ready to let go of the band.

Determined to piece together the perfect life with the band and a family, Valetine begins planning, and when she inherits the crumbling Southern gothic hotel she grew up in from her late father, it feels like fate. Convincing Raul, Banner and Linh to join her in renovating the hotel, she begins to dream up a queer family life together after facing a homophobic upbringing. But as the four of them navigate their new life and welcome a daughter, August, their relationships start to sour. On the night of the hotel's grand opening, what's meant to be an evening of celebration turns into a nightmare as August goes missing.

Stylish, twisty and laced with dark humour, Four Terrible Parents is a story of power, love, responsibility and what happens when parents turn on each other. And then the world turns on them.

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Praise for Four Terrible Parents: An addictive story of love, jealousy and the curse of trying to have it all | 'Brilliant' Kim Gordon

  • Praise for Calla Henkel

  • Blackly humorous and enjoyably twisted

  • A sparkling debut . . . a very good plot-driven thriller dressed in a glittery jumpsuit - Guardian

  • Brutal, glamorous and genuinely unpredictable, it will blow your mind until the very last page - Stylist

  • Hugely entertaining - New York Times

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Calla Henkel

Calla Henkel is an American writer, playwright, director and artist living between Berlin and Los Angeles. Her debut novel, Other People's Clothes, was a New York Times Book Review 'Editors' Choice'. She has staged plays at VolksbA hne Berlin and the Whitney Museum of Art, and her artistic work with Max Pitegoff has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. She currently operates a theatre in Los Angeles, called New Theater Hollywood. Scrap is her second novel.

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