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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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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. Sadieβs 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 loverβs 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 βCranberry Relishβ Josieβs exβa man she met on Facebookβhas a new girlfriend he found on Twitter. In βBlue Heron Bridgeβ Nina is more worried that the Presbyterian minister living in her garage will hear her kids swearing than about his finding out that sheβs sleeping with her running partner. And in βThe Rhett Butlersβ 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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