000			02904cam a22003858i 4500
001			ocn989963711
003			OCoLC
005			20180722225938.0
008			170630t20182018nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2017027550
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dBTCTA _dYDX _dBDX _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dMYL _dFBP _dJTH _dIUK _dNFG
020			_a9781501156601 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1501156608 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)989963711
042			_apcc
092			_aGreathea _bKate
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aGreathead, Kate, _eauthor. _9352941
245	1	0	_aLaura & Emma : _ba novel / _cKate Greathead.
246	3		_aLaura and Emma
250			_aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a334 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets Jefferson. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she's pregnant. Enter: Emma. Despite her progressive values, Laura raises Emma by herself in the same blue-blood world of private schools and summer homes she grew up in, buoyed by a host of indelible characters, including her eccentric mother, who informs her society friends and Emma herself that she was fathered by a Swedish sperm donor; her brother, whose childhood stutter reappears in the presence of their forbidding father; an exceptionally kind male pediatrician; and her overbearing best friend, whose life has followed the Park Avenue script in every way except for childbearing. Meanwhile, the apple falls far from the tree with Emma, who begins to question her environment in a way her mother never could. Told in vignettes that mine the profound from the mundane, with meditations on everything from sex and death to insomnia and the catharsis of crying on the subway, a textured portrait emerges of a woman struggling to understand herself, her daughter, and the changing landscape of New York City in the eighties and nineties. Laura & Emma is an acutely insightful exploration of class and family warfare from a new author whose offbeat sensibility, understated wit, and stylish prose celebrate the comedy and pathos that make us human"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aSelf-realization in women _vFiction. _9115782
650		0	_aMothers and daughters _vFiction. _91062
650		0	_aSingle mothers _vFiction. _98914
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction. _93570
655		7	_aDomestic fiction. _2lcgft _93574
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c268829 _d268829