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A dark comedy about lodgings, lovers, and mother-daughter bonds that falter across time and tenancies.

"What it said to me was that I was here again, I was back, back from the great nowhere of somewhere else, returned, all too officially, to the whereabouts of Moffa."

After a year away, a woman arrives back in her hometown to keep an eye on her wayward mother, Moffa. Living in a precarious sublet, she is always on edge, anticipating a visit from the landlord or the arrival of the other resident. But her thoughts also drift back to the rented room she has just left, now occupied by a new lodger she has never met, but whose imagined navigations within the house and home become her fascination.

The minor dramas of temporary living are pried open and ransacked in Holly Pester's irreverent reckoning with those who house us. This is a story about what it means to live and love within and outside of family structures. It is also a stunning first novel from a writer already hailed as one of the best poets of her generation.

"This stylistically eccentric novel holds a pressing, political truth."--The Guardian

"Holly Pester is a genius and The Lodgers gets into everything that matters."--Kate Briggs, author of The Long Form