Laura & Emma
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Laura & Emma

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Laura & Emma

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"Masterly deftness, funny sentence by funny sentence...a moving and intricately braided story of two mothers." — Jonathan Franzen, The Guardian This "beguiling, addictive read" ( People, Book of the Week) and Belletrist Book Club pick about a blue-blooded single mother raising her daughter in rarefied New York City is a "carefully observed family story [that] rings true to life" ( The New York Times Book Review ). 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 a man. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she's pregnant.Enter: Emma. "Unputdownable" ( Library Journal ) and "wryly observed" ( Vogue ), Laura & Emma follows Laura as she raises Emma in New York City over the next fifteen years. With wit and compassion, Kate Greathead explores the many flaws and quirks that make us human. Laura's story hosts a cast of effervescent and original 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. "Kate Greathead's debut novel gamely takes on class conflict, single motherhood, and the discreet pretension of the 1980s Upper East Side" ( New York magazine) and is a "layered story about mothers and daughters and identity" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Told in vignettes whose every "restrained and understated sentence has been polished to glittering brightness" ( Vox ), Laura & Emma is "an incisive comedy of manners about class divides and the 'burdens' of being born privileged" ( Esquire ) and "a thoughtful novel of trying to find oneself despite an assigned place in the world" ( Publishers Weekly ).

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Publisher
S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Year
2018
ISBN
9781501156632
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. 1980
  5. 1981
  6. 1982
  7. 1983
  8. 1984
  9. 1985
  10. 1986
  11. 1987
  12. 1988
  13. 1989
  14. 1990
  15. 1991
  16. 1992
  17. 1993
  18. 1994
  19. 1995
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Readers group guide
  22. About the Author
  23. Copyright