Today will be different : a novel /
Semple, Maria,
Today will be different : a novel / Maria Semple. - First edtion. - 259 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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.
Adult
Text in English
9780316403436 0316403431
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Animators--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Seattle (Wash.), setting.
Humorous fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Humorous stories.
Domestic fiction.
PS3619.E495 / T63 2016
813.6 / .Se473 2016
Today will be different : a novel / Maria Semple. - First edtion. - 259 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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.
Adult
Text in English
9780316403436 0316403431
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Animators--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Seattle (Wash.), setting.
Humorous fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Humorous stories.
Domestic fiction.
PS3619.E495 / T63 2016
813.6 / .Se473 2016