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Knopf
February 2015
On Sale: February 3, 2015
Featuring: Josie
242 pages
ISBN: 0385353634
EAN: 9780385353632
Kindle: B00MKZ6L5Q
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Fiction
Single, Carefree, Mellow is that rare and
wonderful thing: a debut that is superbly accomplished,
endlessly entertaining, and laugh-out-loud funny. Maya is in love with both her boyfriend and her boss.
Sadie’s lover calls her as he drives to meet his wife at
marriage counseling. Gwen pines for her roommate, a man who
will hold her hand but then tells her that her palm is
sweaty. And Sasha agrees to have a drink with her married
lover’s wife and then immediately regrets it. These are the
women of Single, Carefree, Mellow, and in
these eleven sublime stories they are grappling with
unwelcome houseguests, disastrous birthday parties, needy
but loyal friends, and all manner of love, secrets, and
betrayal. In “Cranberry Relish” Josie’s ex—a man she met on
Facebook—has a new girlfriend he found on Twitter. In “Blue
Heron Bridge” Nina is more worried that the Presbyterian
minister living in her garage will hear her kids swearing
than about his finding out that she’s sleeping with her
running partner. And in “The Rhett Butlers” a teenager loses
her virginity to her history teacher and then outgrows him. In snappy, glittering prose that is both utterly hilarious
and achingly poignant, Katherine Heiny chronicles the ways
in which we are unfaithful to each other, both willfully and
unwittingly. Maya, who appears in the title story and again
in various states of love, forms the spine of this linked
collection, and shows us through her moments of pleasure,
loss, deceit, and kindness just how fickle the human heart
can be.
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