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A brilliant, ingeniously structured novel about art, love, and deeply held secrets from New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg What happens when, over the course of twenty-four hours, your lifelong dream suddenly goes up in flames? Who are you when your dreams disappear, and how do you...

From the New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own. The women of the Cohen family are in...

Als Tochter eines Handelsreisenden aus dem Mittleren Westen der USA scheint Jami Attenberg prädestiniert für ein Leben auf der Durchreise. Was allerdings in ihrem Fall bedeutet, dass sie sich zunächst auf selbstfinanzierten Buchtouren von Lesung zu Lesung hangelt, frustriert von wechselnden Gelegenheitsjobs und dem ständigen Fliegen, das nur noch mit Beruhigungsmitteln zu ertragen ist. Bis sie sich irgendwann fragen muss: Reise ich oder laufe ich weg?

National Bestseller Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this “encouraging handbook” (Publishers Weekly) features essays on creativity, productivity, and writing from acclaimed authors including Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, Celeste Ng, Meg Wolitzer...

Andrea lebt in New York, ist 39, Single und kinderlos. Und sie ist es leid, sich für ihr Leben rechtfertigen zu müssen. Familie, Ehe, Kinder - einfach nicht ihr Ding. Während ihre beste Freundin Indigo gerade Mutter geworden ist, zieht Andrea alleine durch die Clubs, lässt sich auf eine Reihe von schrägen Dates ein und brüskiert mit ihrer unverblümten Art ein ums andere Mal ihr Umfeld.

For more than 30 years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food - thinking about it, eating it - and if she doesn't stop, she won't have much longer to live. When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control. With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession.

Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK) From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity—and how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami...

“If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father is on his deathbed, Alex—a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister—feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. (A power-hungry real estate developer, he is, by all accounts, a bad man.) She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra.

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a...