Like her much-acclaimed previous novels, Susanna Moore's Sleeping Beauties is set in Hawaii, whose shimmering beauty and melancholy traditions are both seductive and dangerously hard to leave. Or so they prove for Clio, who marries a well-known Hollywood actor--providing her with the promise of escape from the entanglements of island life.
Susanne Moore is best known as the author of In the Cut, which became a Jane Campion film. Moore began her career with the novels now known as 'the Hawaiian trilogy': The Whiteness of Bones, Sleeping Beauties, and My Old Sweetheart. Moore's later novels include One Last Look and The Big Girls. Her non-fiction work includes I Myself Have Seen It.