Book
They may not mean to, but they do / Cathleen Schine.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374280130 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 290 pages ; 24cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A novel." |
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| Subject: | Families > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Schin | 31681010015931 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Refusing to age quietly, take antidepressants or accept the inevitable loss of her longtime husband, Joy Bergman shocks her children when, after becoming a widow, she reconnects with a former flame from her college days, turning as willful and rebellious as the younger members of their family. By the author ofThe Three Weissmanns of Westport . - Baker & Taylor
"Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would prefer. She won't take their advice, and she won't take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father, Aaron, has lasted through health and dementia, as well as some phenomenally lousy business decisions. The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families don't just grow, they grow old. Cathleen Schin e's They May Not Mean To, but They Do is a tender, sometimes hilarious intergenerational story about searching for where you belong as your family changes with age.When Aaron dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother's loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy's college days. They didn't count on Joy suddenly becoming as willful and rebellious as their own kids. With sympathy, humor, and truth, Schine explores the intrusion ofold age into a large and loving family. They May Not Mean To, but They Do is a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together"-- - Baker & Taylor
"A novel about aging, family, loneliness, and love from one of America's greatest comic novelists"-- - Baker & Taylor
Refusing to age quietly or accept the inevitable loss of her longtime husband, Joy Bergman shocks her children when, after becoming a widow, she reconnects with a former flame from her college days, turning as willful and rebellious as the younger members of their family. - McMillan Palgrave
From one of Americaâs greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness, and love
The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families donât just grow, they grow old, and the clanâs matriarch, Joy, is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would have wished. When Joyâs beloved husband dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their motherâs loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joyâs college days. And they didnât count on Joy herself, a mother suddenly as willful and rebellious as their own kids.
The New York Timesâbestselling author Cathleen Schine has been called âfull of invention, wit, and wisdom that can bear comparison to [ Jane] Austenâs ownâ (The New York Review of Books), and she is at her best in this intensely human, profound, and honest novel about the intrusion of old age into the relationships of one loving but complicated family. They May Not Mean To, But They Do is a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together.
