![]() ![]() As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. In a landscape like this, it takes great creative gifts to thwart one’s origins. ![]() An unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, brooding clowns, and an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. Utterly compelling." – The Washington PostĪ spellbinding story about two gifted orphans – in love with each other since they can remember – whose childhood talents allow them to rewrite their future. "So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE BOSTON GLOBE AND THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE ![]()
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