Constructive Friction: The Millions Interviews Lauren Acampora
In The Hundred Waters, Lauren Acampora conjures cul-de-sacs, country clubs, and art galleries to draw readers deep into the fictional town of Nearwater, Connecticut. The tightly-paced novel—one that echoes Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere and Tom Perrotta’s Little Children—mines the secrets that lie beneath the town’s polished, affluent sheen. Louisa Rader, a former model and photographer, has returned to her hometown of Nearwater, where she lives with her architect husband and preteen daughter in a custom-built white and glass cylindrical home. The Hundred Waters examines this complicated landscape of aesthetic perfection, while peeling back layers of class and environmental anxiety.
Peering through the often-distorted lens of photography, art, and architecture, Acampora pushes readers to think critically about authenticity and ultimately argues that art—whether written or visual—should disrupt the status quo to change the way we see.
Leslie Lindsay: explores ideas around art, home, family, the suburbs, displacement. But I think overarching question
