""And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or
insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at
the end of" The Awful Truth"? There are tragedies and there are
comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than
different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy
depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment."" Mia
Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of
"The Summer Without Men," ""has been forced to reexamine her own
life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage,
Mia's husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a "pause."
This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a
psychiatric ward. The June following Mia's release from the
hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where
her mother lives in an old people's home. Alone in a rented house,
she rages and fumes and bemoans her sorry fate. Slowly, however,
she is drawn into the lives of those around her--her mother and her
close friends,"the Five Swans," and her young neighbor with two
small children and a loud angry husband--and the adolescent girls
in her poetry workshop whose scheming and petty cruelty carry a
threat all their own.
From the internationally bestselling author of "What I Loved
"comes a provocative, witty, and revelatory novel about women and
girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and
difference between the sexes.
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