Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 352 pages
- Published by: Avon A; Original edition April 28, 2009
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 006173456X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0061734564
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Book Dimensions:
7.8 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 9.6 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Rosenberg, a poet and children's book author, makes a clean break into adult fiction with the story of a middle-aged lady whose journey to independence begins at a garage sale. Forty-six-year-old Eve's garage sale takes an unexpected turn when her husband, Chuck, goes on an errand and never comes back, leaving Eve to raise teenage son Marcus and nine-year-old daughter Noni. Drawing support from her sometimes helpful mother, old friends at the university where she works and new friends—such as the man she meets in the park and a Korean graduate student and his non–English-speaking wife—Eve discovers the locals offer all she requirements in her life. Rosenberg achieves remarkable emotional range—comic to tragic, dysfunction to triumph, irony to wisdom—for an engaging, often touching story of survival on a heartbreak diet.
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Reader Reviews
At first, I wanted to skim Liz Rosenberg's book; but as I read, it became impossible for me to skip ahead. I was drawn into every sentence. Eve's grandmother and her daughter are wonderfully painted, with distinct and lovable qualities and I hated to come to the end of the novel. The story has humor, anguish, and tension -- a combination that doesn't often occur successfully in modern literature.
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