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"There is so much to praise in Layover that it's hard to know where to start, or to stop. It's diabolically funny, deeply intelligent, and surely the best work of hotel- or motel-room anthropology since Humbert Humbert did his cross-country trek"
Throw away your ideas of a heroine, and meet Claire Newbold. Her son has died. Her husband's been playing around. And Claire has had enough. Checking out of work and home to confront love and loss on the road, she develops a scam for staying in hotel rooms for free. She ignores all calls and messages. She plays the seductress after seventeen years as a faithful wife. Her behaviour ranges from the illicit to - she fears - the deranged as she looks for a way to get through grief and mend her marriage and her life. As taut as a thriller, provocative, poignant and beautifully written, Layover is a stunning novel about sex, grief and free hotel rooms: the unforgettable story of a woman on the edge, and her search for a very personal redemption. "There are few aspects of a novel more compelling than watching the writer go out on a limb, wondering how dare she" (New York Times)
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About Lisa Zeidner Lisa Zeidner is the author of three novels and two poetry collections. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in many publications, including GQ and The New York Times. She is a professor at Rutgers University and lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey, with her husband and son.
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