Friends and Strangers, J. Courtney Sullivan
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Type: Hardcover
Condition: Used, Like new. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The dust cover in good condition shows light wear. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.
Details: Friends and Strangers, J. Courtney Sullivan. Summer Reads listed.
ISBN: 978-0-525-52059-7
Pages: 395
Published: 2020
From the best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions comes an insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life.
Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and a new mother, is struggling to adjust to
A life in a small town after twenty years in New York City. A job opportunity for her husband, and the chance to live closer to his financially struggling parents, convinced Elisabeth to move. But alone in the new house with their
infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night), she feels uneasy, adrift. She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn
moms' Facebook group, her "influencer" sister's Instagram feed, and text chains with the best friend she never sees anymore. Enter Sam, a senior at the local women's college, who is hired by Elisabeth to babysit. Sam is struggling to decide between the path she's always planned on and a romantic entanglement that threatens her ambition. She's worried about her student loan debt and what the future holds. In short order, Sam and Elisabeth grow close. Sam becomes
Elisabeth's confidante, a repository for all the secrets Elisabeth is too ashamed to tell even her husband. Elisabeth, in turn, offers guidance, allaying Sam's fears. But when Sam finds an unlikely kindred spirit in Elisabeth's father-in-law, the true differences between the women's lives are starkly revealed, and a betrayal has devastating consequences.
A masterly exploration of modern motherhood, power dynamics within friendships,
and privilege in its many forms, Friends and Strangers brilliantly reveals how a single year can shape the course of a life.
Condition: Used, Like new. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The dust cover in good condition shows light wear. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.
Details: Friends and Strangers, J. Courtney Sullivan. Summer Reads listed.
ISBN: 978-0-525-52059-7
Pages: 395
Published: 2020
From the best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions comes an insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life.
Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and a new mother, is struggling to adjust to
A life in a small town after twenty years in New York City. A job opportunity for her husband, and the chance to live closer to his financially struggling parents, convinced Elisabeth to move. But alone in the new house with their
infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night), she feels uneasy, adrift. She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn
moms' Facebook group, her "influencer" sister's Instagram feed, and text chains with the best friend she never sees anymore. Enter Sam, a senior at the local women's college, who is hired by Elisabeth to babysit. Sam is struggling to decide between the path she's always planned on and a romantic entanglement that threatens her ambition. She's worried about her student loan debt and what the future holds. In short order, Sam and Elisabeth grow close. Sam becomes
Elisabeth's confidante, a repository for all the secrets Elisabeth is too ashamed to tell even her husband. Elisabeth, in turn, offers guidance, allaying Sam's fears. But when Sam finds an unlikely kindred spirit in Elisabeth's father-in-law, the true differences between the women's lives are starkly revealed, and a betrayal has devastating consequences.
A masterly exploration of modern motherhood, power dynamics within friendships,
and privilege in its many forms, Friends and Strangers brilliantly reveals how a single year can shape the course of a life.
