Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
354 pages · Released Feb 13, 2007 · Anchor
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This is an adult literary novel about grief, loss, and blended family dynamics, not a children's or young adult book. The narrative centers on a woman processing the death of an infant and navigating complex stepfamily relationships. While the tone is often wry and humorous, the mature emotional themes and content make it suitable only for older teens and adults. The book explores serious adult issues including grief, infidelity implications, and marital stress.
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In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when... In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when Emilia has to deal with the most neurotic and sheltered five-year-old in New York City: her new stepson William. Now Emilia finds herself trying to flag down taxis with a giant, industrial-strength car seat, looking for perfect, strawberry-flavored, lactose-free cupcakes, receiving corrections on her French pronunciation from her supercilious stepson – and attempting to find balance in a new family that’s both larger, and smaller, than she bargained for. In Love and Other Impossible Pursuits Ayelet Waldman has created a novel rich with humor and truth, perfectly characterizing one woman’s search for answers in a crazily uncertain world.
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- Fiction
- Literature
- Death
- Infants in fiction
- Infants
- Married women
- Stepfamilies
- Married women in fiction
- Grief
- Grief in fiction
- Stepfamilies in fiction
- Ficción
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ISBN 9780307279804 · Anchor