Justifiably fearing her wrath, they reinvent themselves and don’t tell their daughter, Opal, about their past. The couple, Ray and Cherry, have escaped from a cult-like commune near Santa Cruz that is led by Ray’s mother. “Why should I change it to some fake name?” As much as this is about setting, it’s also about the connections we make between what we read and how we see the world. “I kept Melrose, I kept Wilshire, why can’t I keep Edinburgh?” she tells me over Zoom, bundled up on a chilly spring day. A young couple, about to become parents, move to an apartment on Edinburgh Avenue - the same apartment where she grew up. When Edan Lepucki was working on the 1980s section of her forthcoming novel, “ Time’s Mouth,” she found herself describing the streets of Los Angeles. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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