FRANCE AUTHOR · FICTION · FAMILIES
Nancy Huston
Also known as: Huston Nancy
Most acclaimed
Bad Girl
She never meant for it to happen. . . .For Chicago Thomas, aka Windy, it was an offer too good to refuse: the chance to head the forensics lab at the Las Vegas Police Department. With her six-year-old daughter in tow, Windy moves to Sin City hoping to start over with a loving fiance--far from the sad memories of a first marriage that ended in tragedy. But the job of her dreams is about to take a nightmarish turn.She wanted to be a good girl. . . .Though the first murders appear to be random, they are savage in their intensity: an entire family, butchered in their own home. Only a few days later, another family meets the same grisly fate. To Ash Leighton, the enigmatic chief of the Metro Violent Crime Unit, the signs are clear: a serial killer is stalking Las Vegas.But she just couldn't help herself. . . .In a breathless race against time, the lines between good and bad, right and wrong, begin to blur, and Windy and Ash find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. In a town where nothing is what it seems, only the evidence doesn't lie. And Windy may have to pay for the truth with her life. Sometimes being good is dangerous.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Fault lines
2000
Merritt Fowler is a natural caretaker. Most of her life she has cared for her beautiful, erratic younger sister, Laura; her self-sacrificing physician husband, Pom; and her lovely, fragile sixteen-year-old daughter, Glynn. Now, in this strange summer of unnaturally warm weather and growing pressures, she is caring too for her husband's destructive, controlling mother, who is ill with advanced Alzheimer's disease. Exhausted and confused, Merritt no longer knows quite who she is or what is important to her. She only knows that something deep inside is about to crack. A fierce family quarrel sends Glynn running west from Atlanta to seek sanctuary with her aunt Laura, a fine actress whose promising Hollywood career is in decline. Merritt goes after her daughter - against Pom's wishes and in the face of his anger - and she impulsively decides to stay in California to see if the widening fissures between mother, sister, and daughter can be healed. After a head-on collision with Laura's shallow, seductive Hollywood world and her betraying film director lover, the three women end up in Laura's red Mustang convertible, barreling up the wild coast from the Palm Springs Desert to the Santa Cruz Mountains outside San Francisco - earthquake country. In a borrowed lodge among the great redwoods, they finally stop to confront one another and their own demons.
Infrarouge
Artiste et reporter-photographe, Rena Greenblatt rejoint a Florence son pere Simon et sa belle-mere Ingrid pour une semaine de promenades parmi les splendeurs de la Renaissance. Mais l'idylle n'est pas au rendez-vous. Naguere scientifique brillant, Simon est desormais un homme fatigue a l'elocution hesitante, et sa femme -- solide nature batave -- semble peu receptive aux chefs-d'¿uvre toscans. Le couple parental traine la patte. Et Rena, toute au regret de Paris et de son jeune amant Aziz, s'impatiente. Alors lui viennent quantite de souvenirs, fantasmes et pensees secretes qu'elle ne petit partager qu'avec Subra, son "amie speciale", son double, son invisible confidente. Seule Subra sait a quels infrarouges reagit Rena : desir et dechirements de la maternite, beaute et liberte du sexe, emotion devant les corps masculins debarrasses de leurs oripeaux machistes, et que Rena adore photographier dans l'abandon de la jouissance ... Des chapitres vifs et brefs melent present et passe, revoltes en banlieue parisienne (on est en octobre 2005) et insurrection intime, retours du refoule -- l'enfance emerveillee et endolorie, l'adolescence saccagee -- et mirages de la clairvoyance. Ainsi, infrarouge raconte deux voyages : celui, desopilant, de vacances ratees, et celui, plus sombre et passionne, qui explore les liens et les conflits familiaux, les codes feminin et masculin, les archetypes trompeurs et les verites inavouees. -- Back cover.