A review by rdebner
Best to Laugh by Lorna Landvik

4.0

Ms. Landvik has changed publishers, but has not changed the awesomeness of her writing one iota. As a fellow Minnesotan, I always love to see any of the Minnesota elements/roots in her novels, but beyond that, I love her novels because they are funny and true. This one is set in Los Angeles in the late 70s and early 80s; the main character is a young Korean/Scandinavian woman who takes her cousin up on the offer of a sublet, in an old-style Hollywood apartment complex of fourplexes around a pool. As Candy tries to figure out what's next, she makes a community among her fellow complex denizens, other stand-up comics, and those she befriends at her temp jobs at a record company and a fictional Playboy Mansion.