The Nakeds, Lisa Glatt
The Nakeds, Lisa Glatt
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The Nakeds

Author: Lisa Glatt

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 10 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/02/2015

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

A hit-and-run accident sends the lives of both driver and victim into unforeseen trajectories in a family drama set against the backdrop of the sexual revolution and 1970s California.On the morning that Nina and Asher Teller's marriage falls apart in their Southern Californian kitchen, their young daughter, Hannah, is the victim of a hit-and-run accident that will leave her leg in a cast for much of the next decade. Nina's next husband introduces her to nudism and soon suggests they plunge further into the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Meanwhile, the remorseful driver, Martin, tries to bury his dark secret under the flashing lights and ringing bells of Las Vegas.The Nakeds is an absorbing, darkly comical story of love and desire, of forgiveness and the unforgivable, and the truths we sometimes hide underneath our very own skin.

About Lisa Glatt

Lisa Glatt is the author of the novel A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That and the short story collection The Apple's Bruise. Her poetry collections include Shelter and Monsters & Other Lovers. Lisa's work has appeared in such magazines as Zoetrope: All-Story, Gulf Coast, Mississippi Review, Indiana Review, Pearl, and The Sun. Lisa teaches at California State University, Long Beach and is married to writer David Hernandez.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dana on July 16, 2015

I enjoyed the writing, the author's sensibility, the sense of time (the 70s) and place, and the references to Long Beach since she's a local author. (She's done readings at my kids' school of her children's book Abigail Iris!) But when I finished it I was left with a "That's it?" After the big event......more

Goodreads review by Emma on December 16, 2015

From a review I wrote for the Miami Herald: "Glatt is also the author of two collections of poetry, and her sense of timing might be attributed to this skill set, which is not colored by lyrical descriptions but by precise and cinematic details that give The Nakeds its authentic feel. Time either ho......more

Goodreads review by Ichi on December 17, 2020

| Selalu suka dengan karakter anak (remaja) "orang luar" sana. Karena teringat seorang penulis yang menurutku najong pernah menyatakan bahwa pembaca enggak mencari kenyataan pada buku fiksi, maka kemungkinan besar karakter, dialog, maupun tindakan-tindakan tokoh Hannah dalam novel ini enggak merepre......more

Goodreads review by Kris on June 22, 2020

This one starts a little slow, but it gets interesting with its flawed characters and strange twists and turns of life. There are lots of topics addressed, and even the characters who act in questionable ways have some redeeming qualities. It's not exactly a page-turner, but it held my interest.......more

Goodreads review by Paul on September 06, 2018

A story of brokenness that follows the lives of Hannah, a small girl seriously injured in a hit-and-run, and Martin, the man who hit her. Martin I thought was especially interesting, as society tends to demonize someone like him.......more