| Edition |
First Atria Books hardcover edition. |
| Descript |
307 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Welcome to Cobble Hill. In this eclectic Brooklyn neighborhood, private storms brew amongst four married couples and their children. There's ex-groupie Mandy, so underwhelmed by motherhood and her current physical state that she fakes a debilitating disease to get the attention of her skateboarding, ex-boyband member husband Stuart. There's the unconventional new school nurse, Peaches, on whom Stuart has an unrequited crush, and her disappointing husband Greg, who wears noise-cancelling headphones everywhere. A few blocks away, Roy, a well-known, newly transplanted British novelist, has lost the thread of his next novel and his marriage to capable, indefatigable Wendy. Around the corner, Tupper, the nervous, introverted industrial designer with a warehouse full of prosthetic limbs struggles to pin down his elusive artist wife Elizabeth. She remains elusive. Throw in two hormonal teenagers, a ten-year-old pyromaniac, a drug dealer pretending to be a doctor, and a lot of hidden cameras, and you've got a combustible mix of egos, desires, and secrets bubbling in brownstone Brooklyn. |
| Subject |
Married people -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Neighborhoods -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9781982147037 (hardcover) |
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1982147032 (hardcover) |
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