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A Novel in Stories
Simon & Schuster
May 2008
On Sale: April 22, 2008
192 pages
ISBN: 1416532625
EAN: 9781416532620
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"I looked out the
window and was filled with contentment. I was on a train.
There was no
landscape, ugly or beautiful, to demand my attention . . .
None of the
passengers within my view were badly dressed. I had the
right book with
me . . . I was happily married but alone, nothing in the
immediate past
to regret, nothing in the immediate future to fear. In
between -- the
best place to be." At fifty, Grace Hanford has
lived long
enough to be a daughter, a stepdaughter, a girlfriend, a
sister, a
sister-in-law, a wife, a stepmother, and an orphan. She has
fallen in
and out of love -- with troublesome men, with her glamorous
mother,
with her wild best friend, and with New York City -- more
times than
she can count. Still, Grace is more comic than melancholic,
and a
gifted confessor. She lives life as if every day is a movie
in which
her role is yet to be determined -- and her audience loves
her for it. In The Best Place to Be,
we follow Grace from her fatherless childhood through her
years at an
all-girls college to adulthood in the city and her many dating
escapades (and escapes) as an urban sophisticate. Wherever
she may be,
Grace tries to find her place in the world with humor and
the blunt
surprise of truth. And always, in the background, there is
Grace's
mother, brother, and the man she could or might or will call
husband,
out of reach -- until she reaches. In the tradition of
Melissa Bank's The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing,
The Best Place to Be
is at once funny, moving, and deeply provocative, a love
letter to the
self-determined woman that shimmers with hilarious insight
and graceful
wit.
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