This is my first experience reading Lisa Lutz and it will not be the last. I received latest book, "The Passenger", courtesy of Simon & Schuster via Netgalley.
It is a tightly wound thriller about a woman racing to escape her husband's death, her mysterious past and those pursuing her. She adopts different names, hair colors, living situations, cars and careers to avoid the hold of her history.
The one thread that connects her to her old life is a teenage love that she communicates with intermittently through a secure email account. At times the story seems implausible, but the best stories, fiction and nonfiction, usually have a bit of the improbable in them. Life is not a straight line, it is more like the highways that the character teaches about and travels in the book. If you are on a journey involving escape, death, money and lies it typically has some unpleasant truths and surreal undertones.
I liked this character Tanya (etc) and her unlikely friendship with the enigmatic, Blue. Lutz has a bit of the same qualities of some other great female authors of late like Laura Lippman, Gillian Flynn and so on. I encourage you to give it a read.
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