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Photograph: courtesy of Little, Brown and Company
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California by Edan Lepucki

This is a haunting novel set in the not-so-distant future just outside of Los Angeles, in a grim reality that just might not sound too far-fetched at all (yikes). Cal and Frida leave a dying Los Angeles fractured by natural disasters, a radicalized performance/activism group and a festering gap between the haves and the have-nots for a new back-to-basics life in the mountains. It's a life of isolation, survival, fear and loneliness, until Frida's pregnancy spurs the couple to approach the nearest settlement of people for answers and community. This book verges on can't-put-it-down velocity, and Lepucki's dystopian LA plus her beautiful writing about human strength and relationships will stick with you. (Lepucki is the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles and she used to work at Skylight Books. This is her first novel, and it's a New York Times bestseller.)

 

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6 new books about Los Angeles

Whether your reading list needs a little local flavor or you're shopping for a gift for a bookworm, these books belong on a shelf near you.

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It might just be the fact that fall is approaching on the calendar, but there's something in the air that makes us want to hit the books this time of year. We rounded up some of the best new books about LA to populate your reading list, or to help you the next time you stop by one of the city's independent booksellers for a gift. All of these books were published sometime in 2014, so the ink on these pages is fresh. Read all about the city you love, in prose and poetry, from the perspective of a former local drug king and a Box Girl at The Standard, and more.

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