One of my favorite books! I loved it! It is a touching struggle of this woman, Dana, to get control of her life after divorce, and provide for her 2 children. Plus there is also a struggle to decide if she wants to meet other people (men specifically) and date. The book touches on many sensit...
This is the second book I've read by Juliette Fay, and I wanted to so much to really love it, but in both this book and Fay's other novel, Shortest Way Home, I was somewhat frustrated by the stereotypical portrayals of the major characters. In both novels, her main characters are so obtuse about...
and Janie was in bed. The plan was to sleep, but she had napped too late in the day. Her flu seemed to be dissipating; she had been only intermittently feverish that day. She’d had enough energy to get up and feed the kids leftover macaroni and cheese for dinner. A thought came to her as she lay ...
Just looking at her, lithe and bouncy even while seated, brushed the thought of Sean’s foundering family from his mind. They ate at a little café in Belham Heights called Milano that served sandwiches on thick focaccia bread.She and her husband were newly separated, she told him. “You remember Ri...
Customers dwindled as closing time neared, but Dana was still picking out pears, trying to decide between organic and “conventional.” Could she afford organic? Would just a little pesticide be such an awful thing? As she stood squinting at the yellow-green fruit, Dana’s peripheral vision caught s...