# The Talking Stick - Hardcover

by **Donna Levin** (Author)

"The situation: real women with real and painful problems.  
The solution: have friends. Also, magic.  
The result: A thoroughly engaging, completely entertaining novel by the great Donna Levin."  
**\--Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner award winner, Man Booker award nominee, and _New York Times_ bestselling author of _The Jane Austen Book Club_**

Four women find humor, truth, romance, and a better path forward by deconstructing memory and emotion--and expose a wannabe cult leader along the way.

Hunter is lost. Her husband left her for Angelica, her former best friend whose new hit memoir is spreading unsavory lies about Hunter. She's unemployed with no prospects, and the San Francisco flea market she's wandering on a weekday is so foggy that she literally doesn't know where she is.

It's only after a helpful visit and a gift from a stranger who appears from the mist that Hunter finds her resolve. She begins a support group for women looking for new beginnings--only to have Angelica start one, too. In the next room over. One that feels very cult-y.

_The Talking Stick_ is the adventure of Hunter and the three women who join her reclamation journey. Together, they reexamine their pasts, explore their grief, addictions, parenting, and marriages, and discover that some of their most-cherished memories are romanticized versions of the truth. Meanwhile, they unearth other memories--memories that challenge how they've been living for years. And, with the help of a lawyer who prefers life on a houseboat to the pretensions of the city, Hunter unravels Angelica's scheme.

_The Talking Stick_ is a fast-paced dramedy set in the Bay Area, told with the characteristic humor of Donna Levin, an author whom _Kirkus_ called "A witty, modern voice" and the _Los Angeles Times_ deemed "a novelist to keep high on your reading list."  

### Author Biography

**Donna Levin** is the author of four acclaimed novels, _Extraordinary Means_, _California Street_, _There's More Than One Way Home_, and _He Could Be Another Bill Gates_. She has also written two books on the craft of writing: _Get That Novel Started_ and _Get That Novel Written_. Her work is included at Boston University, in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, and in the California State Library's collection of California novels. She lives in San Francisco.

**Number of Pages:** 408

**Dimensions:** 1.7 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN

**Publication Date:** April 23, 2024

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