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Allison Larkin

Biography

Allison Larkin

Allison Larkin is the internationally bestselling author of the novels STAY, WHY CAN'T I BE YOU and SWIMMING FOR SUNLIGHT. Her short fiction has been published in the Summerset Review and Slice, and nonfiction in the anthologies I'M NOT THE BIGGEST BITCH IN THIS RELATIONSHIP and AUTHOR IN PROGRESS. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, with her husband, Jeremy, and their fearful, faithful German Shepherd, Stella.

Allison Larkin

Books by Allison Larkin

by Allison Larkin - Fiction, Women's Fiction

April Sawicki is living in a motorless motorhome that her father won in a poker game. Failing out of school and picking up shifts at Margo’s diner, she’s left fending for herself in a town where she’s never quite felt at home. When she “borrows” her neighbor’s car to perform at an open mic night, she realizes her life could be much bigger than where she came from. After a fight with her dad, April packs her stuff and leaves for good, setting off on a journey to find a life that’s all hers. Driving without a chosen destination, she stops to rest in Ithaca. As she looks for work, she finds a kindred sense of belonging at Cafe Decadence, the local coffee shop. Still, somehow, it doesn’t make sense to her that life could be this easy.