The Nakeds

A hit-and-run accident sends the lives of both driver and victim into unforeseen trajectories in a family drama set against the backdrop of the sexual revolution and 1970s California.
On the morning that Nina and Asher Teller's marriage falls apart in their Southern Californian kitchen, their yo [...]
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A hit-and-run accident sends the lives of both driver and victim into unforeseen trajectories in a family drama set against the backdrop of the sexual revolution and 1970s California.
On the morning that Nina and Asher Teller's marriage falls apart in their Southern Californian kitchen, their young daughter, Hannah, is the victim of a hit-and-run accident that will leave her leg in a cast for much of the next decade. Nina's next husband introduces her to nudism and soon suggests they plunge further into the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Meanwhile, the remorseful driver, Martin, tries to bury his dark secret under the flashing lights and ringing bells of Las Vegas.
"The Nakeds "is an absorbing, darkly comical story of love and desire, of forgiveness and the unforgivable, and the truths we sometimes hide underneath our very own skin.
""Trust me: "The Nakeds "is a book you won't want to put down. With humor, heart, intelligence and compassion, Lisa Glatt has written a powerfully absorbing novel about the most dark and complicated human truths. Her characters are so perceptively drawn I felt as if they were people I knew. Her portrait of southern California in the 1970s is so vivid I could practically feel that particular sun on my face. Her insights into how we love and forgive and deny and accept are so profound I felt changed by the time I read the final sentence. This is an unforgettable and spellbinding book by a writer of rare radiance."
--Cheryl Strayed, author of "Wild
""Lisa Glatt writes with incandescent ink: her novel emanates light. There is damage and heartache to be found in "The Nakeds," yet every page is radiant with redemption, and every gorgeously human character embodies hope. This book will keep you up late at night, turning page after page, laughing aloud, palms sweating, heart in your mouth."
--Dylan Landis, author of "Rainey Royal "and "Normal People Don't Live Like This
""The characters so finely etched and flawed and real, the scenes indelible as if burned into wood--this portrait of people trying to make it in southern California is one of the finest you'll see."
--Susan Straight, National Book Award finalist, author of "Highwire Moon
"The Nakeds "is a work of simple and lucid brilliance, and Lisa Glatt is a stunningly gifted writer. The world needs to know her. I think it soon will."
--Meghan Daum, author of "The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
Praise for the national bestseller "A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That
"An appealingly dark first novel . . . authentic, substantial and engaging."
--"New York Times Book Review
""Smart and stylish . . . Lyrical and sophisticated."
--"San Francisco Chronicle
""Weirdly romantic. Ferociously intelligent. Ridiculously well written and compulsively readable."
--"Daily Candy
""This novel may be a scream of pure pain, but its wisdom and touching examination of grace and instability under pressure are unforgettable."
--"The Miami Herald
"A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That "is an accomplished, elegant, inky-black tragicomedy that raises gallows humor to a heartrending art form . . . . T]his is a rare, bright, glass-cuttingly-sharp jewel of a book."
--"The Journal News
""Glatt fills her pages with women who are so complex and truthfully portrayed, you'll swear you know at least one of them. The end result is a haunting, unforgettable book that admirably manages to be both touching and shocking."
--"BUST
""Sad, yes, but also comic."
--"The Washington Post
""Heartbreaking and hilarious."
--"Press-Telegram
""A less honest writer could mine only melodrama from the lives of these seemingly self-defeated women, but Glatt plays out the ordinary details of their lives with such unadorned authenticity that you can't help but either find yourself in them or admire them."
--"LA Weekly
""A laugh out loud tearjerker."
--"Elle
""Fearless and deeply felt."
--"Rain Taxi