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Today Will Be Different

by Maria Semple
Today Will Be Different

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ISBN13: 9780316403450
ISBN10: 0316403458
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I flat-out loved this book! Don't compare it to Where'd You Go, Bernadette? — it is its own bizarre, charming, muddled thing. If you've ever suffered from "Overwhelmed Mother Syndrome"; if you've ever had a screaming fight on the sidewalk with a relative; if you've ever mourned a parent; if you've ever nonchalantly questioned your ability to parent; if you've ever been the child of an alcoholic; if you've ever despised an in-law; if you've ever worried about the state of your marriage; if you've ever been betrayed by someone you love; if you've ever wondered, Why is my life like this?: this is your book. Semple just gets it — she knows how you feel — she's lived it, or at least, her character Eleanor has. This is a brilliant commentary on our unsatisfying and complicated modern lives, with a ton of razor sharp wit thrown in. Take this trip with Eleanor; she knows you — she is you. Recommended By Dianah H., Powells.com

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Instant New York Times Bestseller 

Named a Notable Book of 2016 by the Washington Post, a Must-Read Book of 2016 by PopSugar, one of EW's 20 Best Books of 2016, and one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best 100 Fiction Books of 2016"

A brilliant novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.
  
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.

Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.

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"Today Will Be Different is so unique, so smart, so funny, so beautifully humane, so utterly of our times, it's astonishing. I've scribbled exclamation points and underlined passages on almost every single page so I can go back and savor. I've started quoting it as if it's already a classic — which, no doubt, it will be." Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl and Dark Places

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"Semple brilliantly conveys a whole array of angst — self-deprecation and existential dread and a panic attack of neuroses — while simultaneously packing in a liberal dose of levity.... It's a joy to watch Eleanor struggle to change for the better. That we get to laugh along with her is an added bonus." Maris Kreizman, Los Angeles Times

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"Loopy, deeply and darkly funny, and brave.... Semple is a master of the social skewer, boldly impolite and impolitic.... Eleanor is as sharp and Semple-esque as they come, which is to say a delightful danger to herself and others, sympathetic, and so very smart." Elinor Lipman, Washington Post

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"Writing a comedy novel that manages to connect emotionally is no easy task, but Semple knocks it out of the park. Today Will Be Different is hilarious, moving and written perfectly, and it makes a good case for Semple as one of America's best living comic novelists." Michael Schaub, NPR.org

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"Readers who devoured Where'd You Go, Bernadette will love Eleanor [Flood]'s wry voice and dark humor." Kim Hubbard, People

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"Another tour de force.... The success of this poetic, seriously funny and brainy dream of a novel — 'Mrs. Dalloway Takes Laughing Gas,' perhaps — has to do with Maria Semple's range of riffs and preoccupations. All kinds of details, painful and perverse and deeply droll, cling to her heroine and are appraised and examined and skewered and simply wondered at. If that's considered a trick, readers of Semple's novel will be overjoyed to fall for it." Meg Wolitzer, New York Times Book Review

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* Instant New York Times Bestseller *
A brilliant novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.

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.

TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.

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A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.

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.

Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.

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*In development with HBO as a series starring Julia Roberts*
* Instant
New York Times Bestseller *
Named a Notable Book of 2016 by the Washington Post, one of Amazon's Top 100 Books of the Year, one of New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books, one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2016, one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, a Must-Read Book of 2016 by PopSugar, one of EW's 20 Best Books of 2016, one of Glamour's Top Ten Books of the Year, and one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best 100 Fiction Books of 2016"

A brilliant novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.

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.

TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.


About the Author

Maria Semple is the author of This One Is Mine and Where'd You Go, Bernadette, which has been translated into eighteen languages. She lives in Seattle.

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Everything about the description made this a must read for me, and while I did finish it in two days, I've yet to decide if it was because it was good or to just get it over with. Semple definitely has a knack for capturing the painfully funny truths of everyday life; however, fragmented story lines took too long to come full circle and took you a little too far to just leave you hanging. Definitely giving this a 4/5 for a quick and easy read of witty charm, but just as the ending was pulling you in for some dramatic end to her day... it's like you were left with the end to another book that was just odd...

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9780316403450
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Publication date:
06/27/2017
Publisher:
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Pages:
288
Height:
.90IN
Width:
5.80IN
Illustration:
Yes
Author:
Maria Semple

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