Une minisérie adaptée du roman MOTHER DAUGHTER WIDOW WIFE de Robin Wasserman est en développement aux studios Sony Pictures Television. Elle sera produite par Sharon Hall (Breaking Bad, Masters of Sex, Justified, Damages, The Expanse…) et c’est l’auteure elle-même qui travaillera sur le scénario. La date de sortie n’a pas encore été annoncée. (Lire l’article de Deadline)
Le roman, publié en juillet 2020 chez Scribner aux États-Unis et acclamé par la critique, vient d’être sélectionné pour le PEN/Faulkner Award aux côtés de quatre autres ouvrages. Le lauréat sera annoncé le 6 avril prochain.
MOTHER DAUGHTER WIDOW WIFE est centré autour de la mystérieuse « Wendy Doe », femme amnésique retrouvée dans un bus sans papiers d’identité, et des personnages qui gravitent autour d’elle : Dr Strauss, le célèbre psychiatre qui étudie son cas, Lizzie, la chercheuse qui travaille avec lui, et plus tard Alice, la fille de Wendy. En quête d’informations sur sa mère disparue, cette dernière va contribuer à mettre au jour le sombre secret du Dr Strauss et son rôle dans la vie des trois femmes…
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Sisters Helen and Lutie moved to Denver from Iowa after their parents died. Helen, the oldest and a nurse, and Lutie, a carefree advertising designer, share a small, neat house and make a modest income from a rental apartment in the basement. But when their tenant dies from the flu, Helen and Lutie are thrust into much more than a sad family drama. There is no safe place for a wayward child in the midst of the epidemic, so the sisters are forced to take in the woman’s small daughter. Dorothy is a shy girl who tries to hide the bruises on her body and who shuts down at any mention of her absent father. They shower her with kindness and love and the three soon feel like a new family, albeit a temporary one. But then everything shatters. Lutie comes home from work and discovers a dead man on their kitchen floor and Helen standing above the body with an icepick in hand. Lutie has no doubt Helen killed the man—Dorothy’s father—defending herself or the little girl, but she knows that will be hard to prove. So when Helen’s doctor boyfriend arrives, a pact is made to protect the nurse at all costs. And this will not be the only secret they have to keep as the war and the flu knock relentlessly on their door.
When BE HERE NOW was first published in 1971, it filled a deep spiritual emptiness, launched the ongoing mindfulness revolution, and established Ram Dass as perhaps the preeminent seeker of the twentieth century. Just ten years earlier, he was known as Professor Richard Alpert. He held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. By most societal standards, he had achieved great success. . . . And yet he couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing. Psilocybin and LSD changed that. During a period of experimentation, Alpert peeled away each layer of his identity, disassociating from himself as a professor, a social cosmopolite, and lastly, as a physical being. Fear turned into exaltation upon the realization that at his truest, he was just his inner-self: a luminous being that he could trust indefinitely and love infinitely. And thus, a spiritual journey commenced. Alpert headed to India where his guru renamed him Baba Ram Dass—“servant of God.” He was introduced to mindful breathing exercises, hatha yoga, and Eastern philosophy. If he found himself reminiscing or planning, he was reminded to “Be Here Now.” He started upon the path of enlightenment, and has been journeying along it ever since.
Taken in the night and delivered to the flying city of Highgate when he was a small child, Milo Quick has never known another home. Now almost thirteen, Milo survives one daredevil grift at a time, relying only on his wits, speed, and an unfailingly loyal band of friends. War is coming to Highgate. As a massive armada surrounds the city, a small ship, the Halcyon, slips through the blockade. Led by a charismatic captain, the unconventional crew of the Halcyon has come to collect Milo for a bounty. But they too are being watched. As threats begin to close in on Milo, the truth will soon be revealed that he is not the true prize they seek, and that the stakes go far beyond the borders of the city, and time, as he knows it. In his debut novel for young readers, Jason Sheehan cleverly weaves together multiple points of view, creating a richly imagined world filled with danger, heart-racing adventure, and no shortage of wit.