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Innocents and Others is about two women who grow up in LA in the 80s and become filmmakers. Meadow and Carrie have everything in common—except their views on sex, power, movie-making, and morality. Their friendship is complicated, but their devotion to each other trumps their wildly different approaches to film and to life. Meadow was always the more idealistic and brainy of the two; Carrie was more pragmatic. Into their lives comes Jelly, a master of seduction who calls powerful men and seduces them not with sex, but by being a superior listener. All of these women grapple with the question of how to be good: a good lover, a good friend, a good mother, a good artist.

 

Dana Spiotta is the author of four novels: INNOCENTS AND OTHERS (2016); STONE ARABIAN(2011), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in fiction; EAT THE DOCUMENT (2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and LIGHTNING FIELD (2001). Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and won the 2008-9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She lives in Syracuse with her daughter Agnes and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program. More information can be found at www.danaspiotta.com

 

“Typically brainy and surprisingly warm, Dana Spiotta’s Innocents and Others is the story of two best friends, filmmakers both, who have very different ideas about everything from movies to morality. Jelly is a third woman, more obviously messed up but probably, weirdly, as powerful in a certain world; she cold-calls important men and emotionally seduces them with her “active listening.” How these three women collide is the plot here. But how it is that all of our devices--technological and otherwise-- meant to help us communicate really do the opposite is the subtext. In that way--and for its clear, frank prose--Innocents and Others reminded me of Jennifer Egan’s Visit to the Goon Squad; like that novel, this one will get under your skin. “──Sara Nelson

"Thousands of short stories and novels have been made into movies,”──Don Delillo said once. “I just try to reverse the process."

From Dana Spiotta, the author of Eat the Document and Stone Arabia, “A brilliant novel…about female friendship, the limits of love and work, and costs of claiming your right to celebrate your triumphs and own your mistakes”──Elle

A startlingly acute observer of the way we live now, Dana Spiotta “has created a new kind of great American novel” (The New York Times Magazine). “Impossible to put down” (Marie Claire), Innocents and Others is “a sexy, painfully insightful, and strangely redemptive novel about the ways we misread one another—with an ending that comes at you like a truck around a blind curve and stays with you for much, much longer”──Esquire