For the past three years, students at Caltech have taken classes in creative writing from critically acclaimed author Edan Lepucki. Like John Irving's fixation on Vienna and bizarre fatal accidents, Lepucki returns to familiar themes across multiple novels-in her case, California and motherhood. But if this calls to mind images of children playing in the surf on a brilliantly sunny day while mom sits in her bikini on a towel, applying sunscreen and smiling indulgently, then think again. By her own admission, Lepucki's novels "have so much darkness.

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