Epic and Lovely

5.500in x 8.250in x 0.900in

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“Celebratory and satisfying in its ambiguities….A dark and complex exploration of the vagaries of parental and romantic love.”

“Daviau’s characters are nuanced and deeply complicated, and she writes through the lens of disability with honesty and humanity…. [the] wisdom—to know who the villain in your story is—carries through to a satisfying conclusion that will leave readers breathless. Ultimately, this book is a book about wanting to be chosen, but it’s also a book about choices and the power contained within them.”

“An original voice.”

“Epic and Lovely thrives with its morally complex characters and their layered relationships. In addition to a surprising storyline, there are also nuggets of common-sense wisdom throughout the book, hidden within its deliberate detachment. Even in the book’s final pages, you’ll be questioning the choices of its characters and reflecting on the quiet compromises we make in our own lives.”

“This book is a love bomb, a love bloom, a love letter from a soul on the edge of death who talks back, cracks wise, and throws down wisdom. Daviau reminds us that death always kisses birth, living always births dying, crying keeps us whole, and laughter is good medicine. I swooned.”

“Mo Daviau’s Epic and Lovely is a novel that manages the startling feat of being at once deeply intimate and thrillingly grand. Taking on motherhood, mortality, disability, and seemingly everything else under the California sun—tech billionaires and Vegas lounge singers, age gaps and abusers—Daviau’s heartbreaking novel fully earns its title’s fitting descriptors. Epic and Lovely is wonderful from end to end.”

“Full of tenderness, dark humor, and aching vulnerability, Mo Daviau has written a stunning novel that asks how we choose to be remembered when our stories reach their inevitable conclusion. Illuminating the complicated intersection of bodily autonomy and parental love,Epic and Lovelyis a meditation on inheritance—both genetic and emotional—that deftly explores what it means to leave behind a legacy when time is running out.”

“Daviau is such a talented prose writer. Uproariously funny, singeing, authoritative. This is a skillful, sophisticated author writing with a scalpel on every line, willing to go to wild places. Somehow we’re in the territory of farce, of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, and of Eyes Wide Shut, all at the same time.”

“In Epic and Lovely, Mo Daviau pushes against our expectations of the chronically ill. It’s a fully rendered look at chronic illness and difficult choices. Darkly funny and driven by the voice of Nina, whose voice is in turns sardonic, quirky, smart, and vulnerable, Epic and Lovely challenges our ideas about what it means to be sick in the modern world.”

272 Pages