Lucky Us is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck by Amy Bloom, the critically acclaimed author of Away. Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star, and Eva, the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune. Iris"s ambitions take the pair across the America of Reinvention in a stolen station wagon, from small-town Ohio to an unexpected and sensuous Hollywood, and to the jazz clubs and golden mansions of Long Island. From Brooklyn"s beauty parlors to London"s West End, a group of unforgettable people love, lie, cheat, and survive in this story of our fragile, absurd, heroic species.