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When a deep-seated memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns
becomes obsessed with the long-ago disappearance of her childhood
friend April Cassidy. Driven to investigate, Elizabeth discovers a
thirty-five-year-old newspaper article revealing the details that
had been hidden from her as a child shocking revelations about
April's mother, Adele.
Elizabeth, now herself a mother, seeks out anyone who might help
piece together the final months, days, and hours of this troubled
woman's life, but the answers yield only more questions. And those
questions lead back to Elizabeth's own life: her own compromised
marriage, her increasing self-doubt and dissatisfaction, and
finally, a fearsome reckoning with what it means to be a wife and
mother.
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The Red Book (Paperback)
Deborah Copaken Kogan
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'Destined to be a classic . . . a sharply funny, clear-eyed
examination, in the vein of Mary McCarthy's The Group, of the power
and burden of privilege, the reality of being a modern woman and
the lasting bonds of female friendship.' Vanity Fair Can a weekend
change your life? Clover, Addison, Mia and Jane were college
roommates until their graduation in 1989. Now, twenty years later,
their lives are in free fall. Clover, once a securities broker with
Lehman Brothers, living the Manhattan dream, is out of a job, newly
married and fretting about her chances of having a baby. Addison's
marriage to a novelist with writers' block is as stale as her
artistic 'career'. Mia's acting ambitions never got off the ground,
and she now stays home with her four children, renovating and
acquiring faster than her Hollywood director husband can pay the
bills. Jane, once the Paris bureau chief for a newspaper, now the
victim of budget cuts, has been blindsided by different sorts of
loss. The four friends have kept up with one another via the red
book, a class report published every five years, in which alumni
write brief updates about their lives. But there's the story we
tell the world, and then there's the real story, as the classmates
arriving at their twentieth reunion with their families, their
histories, their dashed dreams and secret longings, will discover
over the course of an epoch-ending, score-settling, unforgettable
weekend.
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Red Book (Paperback)
Deborah Copaken Kogan
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""The Big Chill" for the Facebook generation."
--Adam Gopnik, author of "Paris to the Moon"
Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until
their graduation in 1989.
Twenty years later, their lives are in free fall. Clover, once a
securities broker, is out of a job and struggling to reproduce
before her fertility window shuts. Addison's marriage to a
writer's-blocked novelist is as stale as her so-called career as a
painter. Hollywood closed its gold-plated gates to Mia, who now
stays home with her children, renovating and acquiring faster than
her husband can pay the bills. Jane, the Paris bureau chief for a
newspaper whose foreign bureaus are now shuttered, is caught in a
vortex of loss.
Like all Harvard grads, they've kept abreast of one another via the
red book, a class report published every five years, containing
alumni autobiographical essays. But there's the story we tell the
world, and then there's the real story, as these former classmates
will learn during their twentieth reunion, a relationship-changing,
score-settling, unforgettable weekend.
"Utterly engrossing."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"A wonderfully epic 'cradle to grave' story . . . about the
enduring power of friendship."
--"Sunday Express"
"Destined to be a classic."
--"Vanity Fair"
I read No Exit in my early twenties, and I remember thinking hell
might very well be other people, okay, sure, but under what
far-fetched conditions would anyone ever actually be trapped
forever in the company of strangers with no sleep or means of
escape?Then I became a parent. From Deborah Copaken Kogan, the
acclaimed author of the national bestseller Shutterbabe, comes this
edgy, insightful, and sidesplitting memoir about surviving in the
trenches of modern parenting. Kogan writes situation comedy in the
style of David Sedaris and Spalding Gray with a dash of
Erma-Bombeck-on-a-Vespa: wry, acutely observed, and often hilarious
true tales, in which the narrator is as culpable as any character.
In these eleven linked pieces, Kogan and her husband are almost
always broke while working full-time and raising three children in
New York City, one of the most expensive and competitive cities in
the world. In one episode, exhausted from a particularly difficult
childbirth, Kogan finds herself sharing a hospital room with a
foul-mouthed teen mother and her partying posse. In another, Kogan
manages to crawl her way to her own emergency appendectomy, which
inconveniently strikes the same week her infant's babysitter is
away on vacation, her adolescents are off from school, her New York
Times editor needs his edit, and the whole family catches the flu.
And in the book's capper essay, she drives twelve hours, solo, with
a screaming toddler in a rent-a-car in a futile effort to catch a
glimpse of her eldest child in his summer camp play. Yes,
Shutterbabe is all grown up and slightly worse for the wear, but
her clear-eyed vision while under fire has remained intact: You've
never read funnier war stories.
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