Before everything
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- ISBN: 9780735222571 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780735222588 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
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pages cm - Publisher: New York : Viking, 2017.
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- Baker & Taylor
"A luminous and richly layered novel evoking The Big Chill--the story of a group of lifetime friends who gather together to confront life, love, and now, mortality Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known one another since they were girls. They've faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the group's trailblazer and brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what they've always done--talk and laugh and help each other make choices and plans, this time in Anna's rural Massachusetts home. Helen, Anna's best friend and a celebrated painter, is about to remarry. The others face their own challenges--Caroline with her sister's mental health crisis; Molly with a teenage daughter's rebellion; Ming with her law practice--dilemmas with kids and work and love. Before Everything is as funny as it is bittersweet, as the friends revel in the hilarious mistakes they've seen one another through, the secrets kept and adventures shared. But now all sense of time has shifted, and the pattern of their lives together takes on new meaning. The novel offers a brilliant, emotionally charged portrait, deftly conveying the sweep of time over everyday lives, and showing how even in difficult endings, gifts can unfold. Above all it is an ode to friendship, and to how one person shapes the journeys of those around her"-- - Baker & Taylor
A group of friends who have faced everything together since girlhood gather once more in the wake of their leader's terminal illness to support her and each other through such challenges as remarriage, a rebellious daughter, a sibling's mental health crisis and a career setback. By the award-winning author ofLoverboy . - Baker & Taylor
A group of friends who have faced everything together since girlhood gather once more in the wake of their leader's terminal illness to support her and each other through various challenges. - Penguin Putnam
A group of lifetime friends gather together to confront life, love, and now mortality
âEverything you want a novel about life, death, and friendship to beâsmart, moving, sweeping, poetic, stinging, just beautiful. I loved these women (and their men) and this elegy to their long-reaching bonds.â
âDani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known each another since they were girls. Theyâve faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the groupâs trailblazer and brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what theyâve always doneâtalk and laugh and help each other make choices and plans, this time in Annaâs rural Massachusetts home. Helen, Annaâs best friend and a celebrated painter, is about to remarry. The others face their own challengesâCaroline with her sisterâs mental health crisis; Molly with a teenage daughterâs rebellion; Ming with her law practiceâdilemmas with kids and work and love.
Before Everything is as funny as it is bittersweet, as the friends revel in the hilarious mistakes theyâve seen one another through, the secrets kept, and adventures shared. But now all sense of time has shifted, and the pattern of their lives together takes on new meaning. The novel offers a brilliant, emotionally charged portrait, deftly conveying the sweep of time over everyday lives, and showing how even in difficult endings, gifts can unfold. Above all it is an ode to friendship, and to how one person shapes the journeys of those around her.