The Generosity of Women

Fiction & Literature
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Author: Courtney Eldridge ISBN: 9780547488592
Publisher: HMH Books Publication: June 2, 2009
Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Language: English
Author: Courtney Eldridge
ISBN: 9780547488592
Publisher: HMH Books
Publication: June 2, 2009
Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language: English

MEET:

Joyce, the foul-mouthed and wildly successful curator of a controversial art exhibit on surveillance, who unexpectedly finds herself under surveillance—in her own bedroom.

Her best friend, Bobbie, a gynecologist—driven, poised, and in control—a woman who finally finds love at fiftysomething and watches, horrified, as her perfectly ordered world crumbles around her.

Bobbie’s patient, Lisa, a former juvenile offender and habitual runaway, who once dreamed of fame working as Joyce’s gallery assistant and is now struggling with her new identity as a banker’s wife and doting mother.

Lisa’s sister, Lynne, a middle-aged suburban mother whose penchant for home decorating conceals her troubled marriage and blinding desire to exact revenge for a childhood injustice.

Jordan, Lynne’s sixteen-year-old daughter, a former straight-A student and aspiring model who, no longer fitting in at school or at home, takes a part-time job at a supermarket to spite her mother—and finds a close confidant in her thirty-year-old male boss.

And finally, meet Adela, Bobbie’s beautiful twenty-three-year-old daughter—and Joyce’s goddaughter—who has returned to New York for a long weekend under the guise of meeting her mother’s new boyfriend, but has a bomb of her own to drop.

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MEET:

Joyce, the foul-mouthed and wildly successful curator of a controversial art exhibit on surveillance, who unexpectedly finds herself under surveillance—in her own bedroom.

Her best friend, Bobbie, a gynecologist—driven, poised, and in control—a woman who finally finds love at fiftysomething and watches, horrified, as her perfectly ordered world crumbles around her.

Bobbie’s patient, Lisa, a former juvenile offender and habitual runaway, who once dreamed of fame working as Joyce’s gallery assistant and is now struggling with her new identity as a banker’s wife and doting mother.

Lisa’s sister, Lynne, a middle-aged suburban mother whose penchant for home decorating conceals her troubled marriage and blinding desire to exact revenge for a childhood injustice.

Jordan, Lynne’s sixteen-year-old daughter, a former straight-A student and aspiring model who, no longer fitting in at school or at home, takes a part-time job at a supermarket to spite her mother—and finds a close confidant in her thirty-year-old male boss.

And finally, meet Adela, Bobbie’s beautiful twenty-three-year-old daughter—and Joyce’s goddaughter—who has returned to New York for a long weekend under the guise of meeting her mother’s new boyfriend, but has a bomb of her own to drop.

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