The Sunset Crowd: A Novel

Great story line…Classic LA story.

“I looked to where she was standing, and realized that I was on the edge of it–the Sunset crowd.” Evra Scott is “a poetess of fashion” and entrepreneur of “Sunset on Sunset. A castle to consumerism where shoppers had only one real goal. To own a piece of Evra Scott.” If Evra Scott is the princess of Sunset, bourbon-haired golden-girl Bea Dupont is the glue…until Theodora Leigh walks across the threshold of the store and the story. “Sexy, charming, generous,” the smoke-and-mirrors way about her is anything but. Theodora, Bea, and Evra are “three alphas, trying to out female each other with their beauty, and intelligence, their ambition…No matter who you are, women who are too interesting, too pretty, and too lucky are often straying very far from the truth…Beautiful people with their beautiful backdrop, and…a big bold lie…a festival of lies…Anything can happen if everything about you is a lie…If you’re going to lie, might as well go high.” “We should admit our flaws, our failings. At least to our friends.” Or does it depend? Theadora, Evra and Bea are “volleying secrets. The ones we could reveal, the ones we couldn’t. The ones we wanted to keep for ourselves…We are all capable of things we don’t want to admit we’re capable of.” Evra had been unfazed by Bea’s friendship for all these years because “she’d never considered me a threat. It was time for Evra to remove her blinders.” “It’s hard to know a person until you know a person.” And Theadora is full of surprises. “She had to use what all the women out here rely on: body, brains, backbone” and “She did the most Hollywood thing of all – she acted – and we all failed to see it.” Karin Tanabe’s The Sunset Crowd questions, “How could we finally break the silence about what women in the movie industry endured, just to have a seat at the table, a chance to make their art?” It’s a tribute “to Los Angeles for forever calling dreamers to your doors…madness and beauty and love and sex and more…aspirational rather than inspirational, but elegantly delectable…I loved it tremendously.”