# Time's Mouth - Hardcover

by **Edan Lepucki** (Author)

**From _New York Times_ bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape of California**

Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950's California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. Yet Ursa's powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish community of sisterhood takes an ominous turn, prompting her son, Ray, and his pregnant lover, Cherry, to flee their home for Los Angeles and reinvent themselves far from Ursa's insidious influence. But escaping their past won't be so easy. A series of mysterious events forces Cherry to abandon their baby, leaving Ray to raise Opal alone.

Now a teenager and still heartbroken over the abandonment of the mother she never knew, Opal must journey into her own past to reveal the generations of secrets that gave rise to the shimmering source of her family's painful legacy.

From the forests of Santa Cruz, to the 1980s glam of Melrose Avenue to a solitary mansion among the oil derricks off La Cienega Boulevard, and brimming with the double-edged capacity of memory to both heal and harm, _Time's Mouth_ is a poignant and evocative excavation of the bonds that bind families together.

### Author Biography

**EDAN LEPUCKI** is the _New York Times_ bestselling author of the novels _California_ and _Woman No. 17_, as well as the editor of _Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them_. Her nonfiction has been published in _The New York Times Magazine_, the _Los Angeles Times_, _Esquire Magazine_, and _The Cut_, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

**Number of Pages:** 416

**Dimensions:** 1.5 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN

**Publication Date:** August 01, 2023

## Details

- **Price:** 28.0 USD
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