The author of the “ethereal and brutally
realistic” (The New York Times) Tuesday Nights in
1980 returns with a highly anticipated new novel
exploring what it means to be a woman in her many
forms—daughter, friend, partner, lover, and mother.
Emily writes for women’s catalogs for a
living, but she’d rather be writing books. She has a
handsome photographer boyfriend, but she actively wonders
how and when they will eventually hurt each other. Her best
work friend Megan is her lifeline, until Megan is abruptly
laid off. When her world is further upended by an unplanned
pregnancy, Emily is forced to make tough decisions that will
change her life forever.
What will she sacrifice
from her old life to make room for a new one? What fires
will she be forced to extinguish, and which will keep
burning? Old Flame is a story about the
essential—and often existential—choices that
define a woman’s life at every level, from which dress
to wear to when to have a child to how to be in the world.
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