They may not mean to, but they do / Cathleen Schine.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 290 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374280130
- 0374280134
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | Schine, Cathleen | Scribbling inside front and back cover. 7.11.18 ALH | Available | 33111008173367 | |||
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Main Library | Fiction | Schine, Cathleen | Available | 33111008423424 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From one of America's greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness, and love
The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families don't just grow, they grow old, and the clan's matriarch, Joy, is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would have wished. When Joy's beloved husband dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother's loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy's college days. And they didn't count on Joy herself, a mother suddenly as willful and rebellious as their own kids.
The New York Times -bestselling author Cathleen Schine has been called "full of invention, wit, and wisdom that can bear comparison to [ Jane] Austen's own" ( The New York Review of Books ), and she is at her best in this intensely human, profound, and honest novel about the intrusion of old age into the relationships of one loving but complicated family. They May Not Mean To, But They Do is a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together.
"A novel"--Dust jacket.
"Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would prefer. She won't take their advice, and she won't take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father, Aaron, has lasted through health and dementia, as well as some phenomenally lousy business decisions... When Aaron dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother's loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy's college days. They didn't count on Joy suddenly becoming as willful and rebellious as their own kids."-- Provided by publisher.