Michelle Huneven
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Michelle Huneven
How do people live in this world? is a question that seems to hover, alongside the Hollywood sign, over the neighborhood of Los Feliz. Certainly Pete Ross wonders as much, his run as a successful chef, husband, and father having imploded so spectacularly as to land him back in the fraught care of his mother. Similarly, Alice Black’s life–hinging as it does on a married boyfriend–is yet pending, and Helen Harland’s ministry has thus far failed to enchant her new congregants. Meanwhile, at the retirement home down the street, Alice’s aunt Kate lives in a…
Michelle Huneven
In a small town among the citrus groves in the Santa Bernita Valley, so the locals claim, nothing ever goes according to plan. “It’s a great place to live, they say, if you like surprises: it’s just like life, only different.”
Certainly a number of Rito’s inhabitants—fewer than a hundred in all—are surprised to be living here. Red Ray, for instance, a wildly alcoholic lawyer who bought a dilapidated Victorian mansion in an attempt to rehabilitate his marriage and regain the affections of his wife and young son. After destroying those hopes with a spectacular…
