The Comeback
A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel)
(Sprache: Englisch)
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! An empowering, behind-the-scenes novel of a young Hollywood actress and the dark secret she s ready to confront.
One of Summer 2020 s Most Anticipated Novels
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One of Summer 2020 s Most Anticipated Novels
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A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! An empowering, behind-the-scenes novel of a young Hollywood actress and the dark secret she s ready to confront. One of Summer 2020 s Most Anticipated Novels
Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, Oprah magazine, Bustle, E! Online, Popsugar, Goodreads, Today Show online, New York Post, Betches, Better Homes & Gardens, HelloGiggles, Bad on Paper podcast, The Stripe, Shondaland, HuffPost, CNN.com, Mashable
Beautifully written and compulsively readable At its core, this book is about redemption, grace, and pain.
Jenna Bush Hager
A novel so full-blooded, so humane, that the pages feel almost warm to the touch. A clarifying, purifying chronicle of a promising young woman gone astray and the story of her comeback. Grace Turner can do it. You can do it, too.
A.J. Finn
Grace Turner was one movie away from Hollywood s A-List. So no one understood why, at the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, she disappeared.
Now, one year later, Grace is back in Los Angeles and ready to reclaim her life on her own terms.
When Grace is asked to present a lifetime achievement award to director Able Yorke the man who controlled her every move for eight years she knows there s only one way she ll be free of the secret that s already taken so much from her.
The Comeback is a moving and provocative story of justice a true page-turner about a young woman finding the strength and power of her voice.
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CHAPTER ONESix Weeks Earlier
They recognize me when I m at CVS buying diet pills for my mom, the only kind that don t make her lose her mind.
Aren t you Grace Turner?
The woman is pleased with herself, a red flush climbing her neck and bursting proudly across her cheeks. Her companion is smaller, wiry, with narrow eyes, and I already understand that she s the type who will need me to prove it somehow, as if I have anything left to prove.
Grace Hyde, I correct, smiling politely, humbly, before turning back to the staggering array of options in front of me. The one my mom likes has a cartoon frog standing on a set of scales on the box.
Do you live around here now? the first one asks hungrily. She s already terrified that she ll forget something when she recounts the story to her friends.
I m staying with my parents. Maybe I m in the wrong section.
What was your last movie, anyway? This from the smaller one, obviously. She s scowling at me and I find myself warming to her. It s hard to find a woman who still believes that the world owes her anything. Her friend, who has been shifting from foot to foot like she needs to take a piss, jumps into action.
Your last film was Lights of Berlin. You were nominated for a Golden Globe but you d already disappeared.
Top marks, I say, forcing a smile before I turn around again. Then I put on a truly award-worthy performance, this one of a former child star in a supermarket, dutifully shopping for all of her mom s health care needs.
Were you needed back at home? The woman puts her hand on my shoulder, and I try not to flinch at the unsolicited contact. I m sorry. It s just how you . . . you disappeared one day. Was it because your parents needed you?
Her relief is palpable, hanging off each word. And there it is. Because not only has this woman recognized me despite my badly bleached hair, ten extra pounds, and sweatpants from Target, and not only have I validated her
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very existence merely by being in the same shitty store in the same shitty town as she is, but also, after a year of waiting, I have restored her faith in something that she might never be able to articulate herself. This woman can leave the weight management aisle today believing once again that people are inherently good and, even more important, that people are inherently predictable. That nobody on this planet would walk out of their own perfect life one day for no discernible reason. And all this on a Monday afternoon in Anaheim no less.
Can you do the bit? From Lights of Berlin? she asks shyly, and the way her mouth tugs up more on one side when she smiles reminds me suddenly of my dad.
I look down at the floor. It would be so easy to say the line, but the words get stuck at the back of my throat like a mothball.
You have pasta sauce on your T-shirt, the smaller one says.
CHAPTER TWO
I take the long route home, walking down identical streets lined with palm trees and fifties-style suburban houses. My parents have lived here for nearly eight years now, and I still can t believe that such a place exists outside of nostalgic teen movies and suburban nightmares. It s the kind of town where you can never get lost no matter how hard you try, and I end up, as I always do, outside my parents neat, pale pink bungalow. It has a wooden porch in the front and a turquoise pool in the back, just like every other house on the street.
The smell of bubbling fat hits me as I step through the front door. My dad is cooking ham and eggs for dinner, with a couple of broccoli spears as a nod to my former lifestyle. I didn t reali
Can you do the bit? From Lights of Berlin? she asks shyly, and the way her mouth tugs up more on one side when she smiles reminds me suddenly of my dad.
I look down at the floor. It would be so easy to say the line, but the words get stuck at the back of my throat like a mothball.
You have pasta sauce on your T-shirt, the smaller one says.
CHAPTER TWO
I take the long route home, walking down identical streets lined with palm trees and fifties-style suburban houses. My parents have lived here for nearly eight years now, and I still can t believe that such a place exists outside of nostalgic teen movies and suburban nightmares. It s the kind of town where you can never get lost no matter how hard you try, and I end up, as I always do, outside my parents neat, pale pink bungalow. It has a wooden porch in the front and a turquoise pool in the back, just like every other house on the street.
The smell of bubbling fat hits me as I step through the front door. My dad is cooking ham and eggs for dinner, with a couple of broccoli spears as a nod to my former lifestyle. I didn t reali
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Autoren-Porträt von Ella Berman
Ella Berman grew up in both London and Los Angeles and worked at Sony Music before starting the clothing brand London Loves LA. She lives in London with her husband, James, and their dog, Rocky. The Comeback is her first novel.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ella Berman
- 2021, 400 Seiten, Masse: 13,9 x 20,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Berkley
- ISBN-10: 0593099524
- ISBN-13: 9780593099520
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.06.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Ella Berman's debut novel is a Hollywood tale that packs a wallop...the reader is taken on a journey of self-discovery and redemption...Grace Turner dreams big, suffers and soars. A stunning debut."Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife
Berman s novel of a young woman recruited far too early in her life into the Hollywood machine may be the smartest book I ve read in the past few years
Lithub
In this compulsively readable story, Berman smartly picks apart the idea of a perfect victim...It s a tale as old as time, told compassionately through a fresh new lens.
Mashable
A hopeful exploration of dealing with trauma that will have readers looking at celebrity gossip differently.
Booklist
"Raw and nuanced...slices straight down to the nerve. A chilling exposé unfolding in real time--I dare anyone to read it without squirming in suspense and in recognition.
Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network
A spectacularly compelling story of a young woman finding the courage to take back control of her life ...This is a novel that will stay with me.
Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author of The Cactus
A raw, gripping and spellbinding account of dangerous secrets, a pining for retribution, and the power of women.
Karma Brown, author of Recipe For A Perfect Wife
A propulsive, timely study of a complicated young woman, trying to put herself back together again in Hollywood's glare. Berman's storytelling is at times darkly funny, at times rage-inducing, always gripping. I read it in 24 hours.
Laura Hankin, author of Happy and You Know It
A compelling tale of power and justice.
Harper's Bazaar
Perfectly of-the-moment, it's gripping, witty, and deeply satisfying the kind of book you lose sleep over, and cancel plans for. I loved
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it.
Katie Lowe, author of The Furies
The perfect mix of timely topics and tabloid drama. We couldn't put this book down.
Bad on Paper podcast
[A] mix of a thrilling page turner with the importance of the #MeToo movement and standing up for what is right...it weaves heavy issues into something unputdownable and enjoyable to read.
The Stripe
In a fiction debut that s all too timely, The Comeback is about Grace Turner, a young actress who returns to Hollywood after retreating from the public eye.
Betches
Katie Lowe, author of The Furies
The perfect mix of timely topics and tabloid drama. We couldn't put this book down.
Bad on Paper podcast
[A] mix of a thrilling page turner with the importance of the #MeToo movement and standing up for what is right...it weaves heavy issues into something unputdownable and enjoyable to read.
The Stripe
In a fiction debut that s all too timely, The Comeback is about Grace Turner, a young actress who returns to Hollywood after retreating from the public eye.
Betches
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