Overview
āCatherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and unflinching compassion. The way she finds the extraordinary in the everyday is nothing short of poetry. Sheās a writerās writerāand a humanās human.āāNew York TimesĀ bestselling author Katherine Center
āWe All Want Impossible ThingsĀ is a riotously funny and fiercely loyal love letter to female friendship.Ā The story of Edi and Ash proves that a best friend is a gift from the gods.Ā Newman turns her prodigious talents toward finding joy even in the friendshipās final days.Ā I laughed while crying,Ā and was left revived.Ā Newman is a comic masterhand and a dazzling philosopher of the day-to-day.āāAmity Gaige, author ofĀ Sea Wife
āThe funniest, most joyful book about dyingāand livingāthat I have ever read.āāKJ Dell'Antonia, author of theĀ New York TimesĀ bestsellingĀ The Chicken Sisters
Ā For lovers of Meg Wolitzer, Maria Semple, and Jenny Offill comes this raucous, poignant celebration of life, love, and friendship at its imperfect and radiant best.Ā
Edith and Ashley have been best friends for over forty-two years. Theyāve shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking;Ā Gilliganās IslandĀ reruns and REM concerts; hickeys and heartbreak; surprise Scottish wakes; marriages, infertility, and children. As Ash says, āEdiās memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine.āĀ
But now the unthinkable has happened. Edi is dying of ovarian cancer and spending her last days at a hospice near Ash, who stumbles into heartbreak surrounded by her daughters, ex(ish) husband, dear friends, a poorly chosen lover (or two), and a rotating cast of beautifully, fleetingly human hospice characters.
Ā As The Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack blasts all day long from the room next door,Ā Edi and Ash reminisce, hold on, and try to let go. Meanwhile,Ā Ash struggles with being an imperfect friend, wife, and parentāwith life, in other words, distilled to its heartbreaking, joyful, and comedic essence.
Ā For anyone whoās ever lost a friend or had one. Get ready to laugh through your tears.
This book title, We All Want Impossible Things (A Novel), ISBN: 9780063230897, by Catherine Newman, published by HarperCollins (November 8, 2022) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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