Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest
came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The
result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at
every turn of the page.
Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary
perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old
Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of
the world, it seems, in her landlady mother's absence. The quirky
tenants--a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone
by--rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the
Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her
surrogate dad's dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty
pet crow, Habib, truly knows. Provoking interesting questions about the
creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty,
suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected.