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A Novel
Vintage
July 2022
On Sale: June 21, 2022
Featuring: Samantha
336 pages
ISBN: 059331249X
EAN: 9780593312490
Kindle: B08KSSS6H2
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Humor | Women's Fiction Family Life
Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into "the Mids"—that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation.
When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life—and her family—as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams.
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