Bøger af Angela Lam

An eclectic collection of fantasy and paranormal stories from Angela Lam. From the depths of desire, a woman's longing makes her a mother. A depressed vampire considers suicide against her obligation to parent a dhampir. A concerned citizen breaks into a house to steal a neighbor's grief. A bridesmaid tumbles into an awkward wedding reception. A heartbroken child yearning for his mother's return wishes against his father's magic. This special print edition features a bonus story, "Chasing Fairies."

After a devastating divorce, Lian Shu does what she has always done-escape into the comforting embrace of any place but home. But the location she chooses, the Valentino Inn at Pacific Grove, California, will be closing after her one-week stay, leaving her with yet another loss. Roman Valentino doesn't want to sell the inn, but circumstances offer no other alternative. Buried under a mountain of debt, with the added pressure of his fiancée to buy their first home, he shutters his own hopes and dreams of preserving his grandparents' legacy and the historical place he has always called home. During their week together, Lian and Roman forge an unlikely friendship that threatens to derail Lian's career and Roman's engagement. But what if their tender feelings for each other are their last chance at love?

On the cusp of forty, Angela Lam consults with a tarot reader for career advice and receives the following prediction: she will find a new job and, while there, she will meet a man who will heal her heart. Already married with children, Angela tells her husband who is unconcerned about what the cards reveal. But when the prediction threatens to manifest, will Angela's family fall apart? This true story will inspire you to reexamine the definitions of midlife crisis and spiritual awakening as well as challenge the roles of fate and free will in your life. Longlisted for the 2022 Memoir Magazine Book Award for "a powerful depiction of the transformational power of memoir." Advance Praise for The Fool and the Magician: Lam's memoir uniquely blends an exploration of love, relationships, mental health, with the more mystical and magical original elements. Her vulnerability and nuanced emotional states allow readers to truly connect to her profound and intimate story. -Publishers Weekly The BookLife Prize

When a solo vehicle crash takes the life of a stranger, writer Tang Young is consumed by grief and guilt. Struggling with writer's block, she's unable to confide in anyone, not even her partner, Layla. But when the stranger's identity is finally revealed, what other truths will surface?

Angela Lam's short story collection explores the multifaceted lives of diverse people struggling to connect in a disjointed world. Lam delves into sexual identity, poverty, romantic love, parenthood, eating disorders, infidelity, and family relationships, effortlessly carrying the reader from the ghettos to suburbia. From the tough-talking, lipstick-wielding girl in "Lips," to the love struck lesbian artist in "Fistful of Love," to the stoic single mother raising a disabled son and the infatuated widow trying to relive her past, Lam illuminates the hope, fear, and longing of what it means to be human.

Between Cassidy's cancer diagnosis and treatment and Deb's never-ending battle to stepparent a disabled adult son, the love they once felt slowly frays. Can a community of new and lifelong friends help the couple resurrect those precious feelings and heal their broken and blended family once and for all?

Geraldine hates growing older. Even though she maintains her high school weight, she can't tolerate the crow's feet or the crepe paper skin or her husband's lack of sexual interest. Lionel battles two fronts-the arthritis that prevents him from hitting home runs for the Vine Valley Crushers and the lack of libido that leaves his wife feeling lon...

When her daughter suggests Darcy Madison attend her ex-husband's wedding, Darcy enlists the help of her colleague, divorce attorney Victor Costello, to pose as her dashing young date. But when Victor proposes to Darcy at the reception, Darcy forgets they are pretending and says, "Yes!" Between her false engagement to Victor and her daughter's suggestion to have a double wedding, Darcy falls even further in the fantasy of being a blushing midlife bride. The longer the masquerade continues, the more Darcy starts to wonder what is love and can it last forever in a world where divorce is the only language she knows?