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Author:

Semple, Maria, author.

Title:

Today will be different : a novel / Maria Semple.

Edition:

First Back Bay paperback edition.

Publisher:

Back Bay Books / LittleBrown and Company,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

258, 9 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm

Subject:

Married women--Fiction.
Self-realization in women--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Femmes mariées--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Réalisation de soi chez la femme--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Familles--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Families.
Married women.
Self-realization in women.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Notes:

Includes reading group guide. "Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, October 2016." -- Title page verso.

Summary:

Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action, life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office -- but not Eleanor -- that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret. A hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.

ISBN:

0316403458
9780316403450

OCLC:

(OCoLC)960277134

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines) — Copies: 10