Zoe Fishman
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Driving Lessons, Saving Ruth, and Balancing Acts comes a poignant breakout novel about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house with a caveat--she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it. Maggie Sheets is just trying to get by. A single mother, she works as a house cleaner and dreams of the days when her financial woes will be over. When her former employer, Liza, a renowned author Maggie once considered...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An executive at a New York cosmetics firm, Sarah has had her fill of the interminable hustle of the big city. When her husband, Josh, is offered a new job in suburban Virginia, it feels like the perfect chance to shift gears. While Josh quickly adapts to their new life, Sarah discovers that having time on her hands is a mixed blessing. Without her everyday urban struggles, who is she? And how can she explain to Josh, who assumes they are on the same...
3) Saving Ruth
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
279, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Ruth returns home to the South for the summer after her freshman year at college, a near tragedy pushes her to uncover family truths and take a good look at the woman she wants to become. Growing up in Alabama, all Ruth Wasserman wanted was to be a blond Baptist cheerleader. But as a curly-haired Jew with a rampant sweet tooth and a smart mouth, this was an impossible dream. Not helping the situation was her older brother, David, a soccer star...
Author
Language
English
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Description
To promote her memoir, widow Mia, to find her spark, embarks on a book tour during which she visits her three best friends and discovers if she can rewrite who she is now by revisiting who she was then, maybe she can reignite the spark for all of them.
Three years after the death of her husband, widow Mia is going on a book tour to promote her memoir. Her path will take her to the three friends who have supported her through her darkest hours.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
392, 14 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sylvie Snow knows the pressures of expectations: a woman is supposed to work hard, but never be tired; age gracefully, but always be beautiful; fix the family problems, but always be carefree. Sylvie does the grocery shopping, the laundry, the scheduling, the schlepping and the PTA-ing, while planning her son's Bar Mitzvah and cheerfully tending her husband, Paul, who's been lying on the sofa with a broken ankle. She's also secretly addicted to the...
