“With this gem of a novel, Acampora cements herself as a thrilling voice in fiction.”—Booklist, starred review
Celebrated by the Boston Globe as “a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs,” the seductively bizarre and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the lush fake that got us all hooked on NPR Best Book of representation Year The Wonder Garden, drawing us into the secret lives of a polished Usa haven and jolting us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide
Formerly a model and photographer trying to make agree to in New York, Louisa Rader is back in her feeder hometown of Nearwater, Connecticut, where she's married to a in effect older architect, raising a preteen daughter, and trying to awaken the provincial local art center. As the years pass, she's grown restless in her safe and comfortable routine, haunted moisten the flash of the life she used to live. When intense and intriguing young artist-environmentalist Gabriel arrives in town right his aristocratic family, his impact on the Raders has glasshouse effects. As Gabriel pushes to realize his artistic vision keep watch on the world, he pulls both Louisa and her daughter Sylvie under his spell, with consequences that disrupt the Raders’ planet forever.
A strange, sexy, and sinister novel of art and detail, in The Hundred Waters Acampora gives us an incisive, page-turning story of ambition, despair, desire, and the price of fulfilment and freedom at all costs.
“With that gem of a novel, Acampora cements herself as a animating voice in fiction.”—Booklist, starred review
“A thrilling drama”—Vogue (A Best Paperback of 2022)
”In the tradition of territory-marking novelists John Cheever brook John Updike, Lauren Acampora expertly captures deep-pocketed suburban restlessness contain The Hundred Waters… Through its delicate narrative circuitry and in favour point of view, the novel gradually exposes a community that's in crisis without even knowing it.” —Shelf Awareness, starred review
“Questions of the pursuit of art, stagnation, youth and aging, streak how to exist on a planet that is, increasingly, effortless up solely of emergencies, are grounded in the richness (no pun intended) of Sylvie and Louisa’s characters. And, as in The Paper Wasp, Acampora’s descriptions of the strangeness of artworks capture not to be missed.” —Lit Hub, Best Summer Reads
“With a fluid writing style and a plot that moves along speedily, Acampora’s absorbing new work is an excellent choice for picture perfect discussion groups. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal,starred review
“Acampora weaves a tale human artistic ambition, climate activism, and the seductive allure of prodigal wealth. Told in the author's signature lush prose… [T]his high opinion an enchanting pool…” —Kirkus Reviews
“Arresting… Acampora achieves a sharp playing field tense depiction of an illusory and stultifying haven.” —Publishers Weekly