Published: Sep. 05, 2011
Words: 94,940 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465786685

Short description

The songs Lucy Faas writes as therapy for her rape bring her more fame than she was prepared for at seventeen. Emerging seven years later, ready to revive her music career, she joins the crazy celebrity boarders hiding at Alexander Murphy’s Montecito haven. There Lucy will discover new aptitudes, interests, perhaps even love, and a secret that can destroy everything the home stands for.

Extended description

[Note: Alexander Murphy's Home for Wayward Celebrities is currently under renovation. The design team will be focused on increasing egress through the plot, character interior design, and a fresh edit to unify the paint scheme. The Home will remain open during the renovation, and your visitor passes will gain you access to all future updates.]

Lucy Faas was lonely, though she didn’t realize it before coming to stay at Alexander Murphy’s Montecito home. She just thought she was leaving her suburban hermitage for a fresh place where she could work on the comeback for her abandoned music career; she never expected to open up about her rape at fourteen whose songwriting therapy propelled her into a music career, or that she would be joining an assemblage of celebrities hiding from a bored populace who would include her in their eccentric family; nor that she would be the one to solve the mystery of the home and its enigmatic host; and it was absolutely unthinkable that she would fal.. (Read more) [Note: Alexander Murphy's Home for Wayward Celebrities is currently under renovation. The design team will be focused on increasing egress through the plot, character interior design, and a fresh edit to unify the paint scheme. The Home will remain open during the renovation, and your visitor passes will gain you access to all future updates.]

Lucy Faas was lonely, though she didn’t realize it before coming to stay at Alexander Murphy’s Montecito home. She just thought she was leaving her suburban hermitage for a fresh place where she could work on the comeback for her abandoned music career; she never expected to open up about her rape at fourteen whose songwriting therapy propelled her into a music career, or that she would be joining an assemblage of celebrities hiding from a bored populace who would include her in their eccentric family; nor that she would be the one to solve the mystery of the home and its enigmatic host; and it was absolutely unthinkable that she would fall in love, and then learn the secret that could bring this celebrity halfway house to a shameful end.

Incorporating Lucy’s songwriting, architecture-themed articles, and sections of pure dramatic dialogue into its seriocomic narrative, and with a cast of celebrities alternately inspired and imagined, Alexander Murphy’s Home for Wayward Celebrities is the kind of literary novel that will appeal to a mainstream celebrity-hungry readership.
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Tags

celebrity, betrayal, contemporary, celebrities, songwriting, sanctuary, scandal, lyrics, architecture, metafiction, irony, child actors, santa barbara, reclusive, montecito, humor and satire, actors and actresses, architects, victimization, literary ficiton, musician fiction, westmont college

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Review by: Jeffra Hays on March 06, 2012 :
Start with a quote: "... it takes more than twenty-three chromosomes to have a say in your kid's life." There are quite a few quotables in this novel. The author's voice (I won't tell more and spoil it) can be personal and sincere. That voice is strongest at the end, when the 'Secret' is exposed -- nice.
Too many passages were rough going at times, lots of characters at lots of parties, which is what celebrities do, so I'm told. My emotional connection to the main character was minimal, and I think the book could use some editing. I'm certainly glad I didn't give up. When he pours his literary heart out, Mr. Karaczewski can write.
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