New York Times Bestseller
#ReadWithJenna and Emma Roberts Belletrist pick. New York Times Bestseller. From beloved Maine author Lily King — a searingly honest novel about grief, ambition, and the stubborn courage to keep creating. The kind of book you finish and immediately press into someone else’s hands.
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#ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick · Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick · New York Times Bestseller
Some books find you at exactly the right moment. This is one of them.
It’s the summer of 1997, and Casey Peabody is holding on by a thread. Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death, bruised by a love affair gone wrong, she’s waiting tables in Harvard Square and quietly, stubbornly, working on the novel she’s been writing for six years. Her mailbox is full of wedding invitations and overdue notices. She’s thirty-one and still believes — fiercely, maybe foolishly — that a creative life is worth fighting for.
Then she falls for two very different men at once, and everything fractures a little more.
From Lily King, the Maine author behind the beloved Euphoria, this is an achingly honest portrait of a woman standing at the edge of one life and the uncertain beginning of another. It’s about art and ambition, grief and desire, and the terrifying, exhilarating courage it takes to keep going.
“I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph… The voice is just so honest and riveting.” — Curtis Sittenfeld
The kind of novel you’ll want to press into someone else’s hands the moment you finish. Perfect for a rainy afternoon on the Maine coast, or anywhere you need a story that feels completely, uncomplicatedly alive.
I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph.
Dazzling... King writes with the precision of a poet and the pace of a thriller writer.
A total joy to read... King has written a novel about the artistic life that is itself a work of art.
Lily King's new novel is a masterpiece of compression and feeling.
Exhilarating... a novel that captures the terror and joy of the creative life with startling precision.
One of the best novels I've read in years.
Funny, wise, and deeply moving... I read it in one sitting.
A #ReadWithJenna pick... King's novel is about grief and art and love and the courage it takes to keep making things.
| Weight | 0.70 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 5.25 × 1.00 × 8.00 in |
| Book Author | Lily King |
| Fiction Type | |
| Subject | Contemporary, Fiction, Literary, Romance, Small Town & Rural, Women |
| Accolade |
12 Perkins Cove Rd,
Ogunquit, ME 03907
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