We're So Lucky to Live Here (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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From the award-winning author of In the Field, an inquiry into grief, love, housing affordability, and the transformative power of art, in the story of a young theater director who, after her mother’s death, stages Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in her childhood home.

"What do you do when your mother dies and leaves you a beautiful house you can’t afford, in a town that’s becoming unrecognizable? In Rachel Pastan’s We’re So Lucky to Live Here, Gwen Rivlin fills the house with strays and stages The Cherry Orchard in the living room. Moving between Gwen’s adolescence and her fraught, complicated present, Rachel Pastan writes with the energy of a sociologist and the soul of a poet. This is a novel about grief transmuted into art, about the families we assemble when the ones we’re born into prove insufficient, and about how a house can be both a burden and a sanctuary. Moving, funny, and wise."—Christina Baker Kline, #1 NYT Bestselling author of Orphan Train and The Foursome

Gwen Rivlin moves back home to Philadelphia in the wake of her mother’s death, and into the big, shabby house with a turret where they both grew up. Her friends tell her it’s too expensive for a 27-year-old theater director, and too suburban if she has any hopes of keeping her social life alive.

Gwen is determined to stay, even when her schemes to make the house more affordable run afoul of the single-family zoning laws and earn the disapproval of her neighbors. To smooth things over, and to assuage her own grief, Gwen stages a production of The Cherry Orchard inside the turret house. She casts friends, coworkers from the local coffee shop, and various community members in Anton Chekhov’s play about a family struggling to hold onto its own real estate.

Through the creation of this beautiful and transitory work of art, Gwen heals old breaches, reevaluates her relationship with her difficult mother, and weaves a new, non-traditional family for herself.