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Lurkers
- Author
- Sandi Tan
- Narrator
- Rebecca Lam
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 30 March 2021
- Run Time
- 10 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In a suburban LA neighborhood, neighbors keep wary distance and at times collide, propelled by desire, fury, and mischief. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; an aging gay horror novelist fights loneliness; and a white mother and her adopted Vietnamese daughter deal with lifelong anger issues. Spanning decades, and bringing together a diverse and interlocking group of stories, Lurkers is a Los Angeles masterpiece, showing Sandi Tan’s fiction to be as formidable and exciting as her filmmaking.
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Details
- Author
- Sandi Tan
- Narrator
- Rebecca Lam
- Duration
- 10 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 March 2021
- ISBN
- 9781696604468
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place
Synopsis
From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed documentary Shirkers, comes a novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers.In a suburban LA neighborhood, neighbors keep wary distance and at times collide, propelled by desire, fury, and mischief. Precocious Korean American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; an aging gay horror novelist fights loneliness; and a white mother and her adopted Vietnamese daughter deal with lifelong anger issues. Spanning decades, and bringing together a diverse and interlocking group of stories, Lurkers is a Los Angeles masterpiece, showing Sandi Tan’s fiction to be as formidable and exciting as her filmmaking.
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