Bump: A Novel - Tapa blanda

A black comedy explores the line separating love and obsession in a story that begins in the aftermath of a three-car pileup in Los Angeles and intertwines the lives of a trio of motorists and a police officer. Reprint.

Bump is the story of a trio of motorists and one policeman linked together by a tangled, life-altering web of coincidence in the immediate aftermath of a three-car pile-up in Los Angeles. Dorothy is to be married in less than twenty-four hours but can't shake the memory of her ex-boyfriend. Madelyn is a married mother of two who falls in love with a double amputee she met through a suicide hotline. Leo is a golden-eyed Latino who speaks no Spanish and has come to L. A. to reclaim his girlfriend. Ray is a Beverly Hills cop who is obsessed with suicide, and whose wife has just left him. Diana Wagman's fast-paced and vividly cinematic narrative presents an engrossing tableau of synchronicity steered by obsession and alienation. Beautifully written and deeply affecting, Bump is hard to put down, and hard to forget.