What A Time to Be Alive

What A Time to Be AliveA deeply moving and often hilarious novel following a woman who becomes an internet folk hero in the most unexpected way, catapulting her into fame and influence just as shes finally beginning to reckon with her complicated past Lola Treasure Gold cant figure out her life. Shes broke, unemployed, and back in her childhood home, a crumbling cottage in the Hollywood Hills. Worseunspeakably worseone of her closest friends has just died. So nobody is more

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an engrossing family saga and a story steeped in history that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity

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As their lives converge and diverge

Fiona Addai is ready to set her plan in motion