Nell Freudenberger – författare

From the PEN/Malamud Award-winning author of Lucky Girls comes an intricately woven novel about secrets, love, art, identity, and the shining chaos of every day American life.

Yuan Zhao, a celebrated Chinese performance artist and political dissident, has accepted a one-year artist''s residency in Los Angeles. He is to be a Visiting Scholar at the St. Anselm''s School for Girls, teaching advanced art, and hosted by one of the school''s most devoted families: the wealthy if dysfunctional Traverses. The Traverses are too preoccupied with their own problems to pay their foreign guest too much attention, and the dissident is delighted to be left alone—his past links with radical movements give him good reason to avoid careful scrutiny. The trouble starts when he and his American hosts begin to view one another with clearer eyes.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger, read by Anne Marie Lee.Helen Clapp is a physics professor. She doesn''t believe in pseudo-science, or time travel and especially not in ghosts. So when she gets a missed call from Charlie, her closest friend from university with whom she hasn''t spoken in over a year, Helen thinks there must be some mistake. Because Charlie died two days ago. Then when her young son, Jack, claims to have seen Charlie in their house just the other day, Helen begins to have doubts. Through the grief of the husband and daughter she left behind, Helen is drawn into the orbit of Charlie''s world, slotting in the missing pieces of her friend''s past. And, as she delves into the web of their shared history, Helen finds herself entangled in the forgotten threads of her own life. Lost and Wanted is a searing novel from one of America''s most exciting writers about the sacred knottiness of female friendship, the forces which fuse us together and those which drive us apart.