Lulu in the Loop: A Novel

For fans of Ann Napolitano and Anne Tyler, a story of pushing past a cringey backstory and emerging a little bruised but stronger and wiser and ready for what comes next.

It’s the disco era, but there is no sparkle for twenty-two-year-old Lulu, who has squandered her gap-year savings keeping up with her better-funded classmates. She finds two lousy summer jobs and is just beginning to feel more solid when an old acquaintance arrives for a weekend and doesn’t leave—until she does, stealing a ...