Goldenseal A Novel

<b><i>A Gentleman in Moscow </i>meets <i>My Brilliant Friend</i> in this novel of two estranged friends who reunite to confront each other and the devastating betrayal that tore them apart</b><br><br>Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven’t spoken to one another in over four decades.<br><br>As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing comfort from the public and private traumas that they had each endured and which a newly optimistic world was eager to forget. Told through a continuous, twisting conversation that unfolds over the course of a single evening, in which each woman tells her story and reveals long-hidden secrets, the narratives of Edith and Lacey burn with atmosphere, mystery, resentment, and regret.<br><br>Set against the vivid landscapes of Los Angeles and unfolding with the evanescence of a dream or a memory, <i>Goldenseal</i> peels away the layers of an intimate female friendship to reveal a stirring and haunting story about the search for connection and the lingering echoes of lost love.