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{"id":6811233288251,"title":"A Boring Wife Settles the Score","handle":"a-boring-wife-settles-the-score","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe eagerly anticipated sequel to the critically beloved and bestselling \u003ci\u003eAutopsy of a Boring Wife\u003c\/i\u003e finds the saucy and ever-appealing Diane, now turning fifty and with the wreckage of her marriage behind her, setting off on a new hilarious journey for romance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Boring Wife Settles the Score\u003c\/i\u003e marks the return of Diane, the raunchy and entertaining heroine of the prize-winning and bestselling \u003ci\u003eAutopsy of a Boring Wife\u003c\/i\u003e. Despite the end of her marriage, Diane still has plenty of love to give. Determined not to waste her days — that’s just not her style — she finds a job in a daycare and solace in cocktails with her best friend, Claudine, who convinces Diane her love life is not over. 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A Boring Wife Settles the Score
The saucy and ever-appealing Diane, now turning fifty and with the wreckage of her marriage behind her, sets off on a new hilarious journey for romance.
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Mirror Lake
A brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death.
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The Creation of Half-Broken People
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize
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The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
A haunting, magical novel about joy, grief, courage and transformation from the international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart.
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A Fairy Tale
A profound novel about a young boy and his father who live at the margins of society, until one day their adventure takes an unpredictable turn.
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The second collection from Canadian poet and filmmaker Shane Book.
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An exquisite story of female desire, faith, and commitment, and one of the most haunting portraits of a marriage I’ve ever read.” — \u003cstrong\u003eLily King, author of the New York Times bestseller Euphoria, July 31, 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Src":"Lily King, author of the New York Times bestseller Euphoria","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e“It would be difficult to overstate the wonder I felt while reading this novel. It’s among the most beautiful books I’ve ever read about longing — for beauty, for sex, for God, for a coherent life. Great writers write with their whole lives, with everything they have seen and thought and felt, with their obsessions and their desires; their books have the density and richness of existence. 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We’d left the play a half-hour after it began, a poorly-written, poorly-acted farce. Now the sidewalk was empty. Tiny lights strung between gas lamps and storefronts created a glittery canopy beneath which we stood. Charming, he’d said when we arrived earlier, a part of the city neither of us had seen. I was still in my clothes from that morning: white sweater, pencil skirt, suede ankle boots with zippers, high-heeled. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’ll call a car, I said. Your hotel’s on the way to mine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe rode in silence, the wet asphalt glowing red and green at stoplights. When we pulled up to his hotel, James turned to face me, adjusting his glasses. Okay, he said. Text me when you’re safely back. He leaned over to brush my cheek with his lips, but when the bellhop opened the rear door he didn’t get out. He sat looking ahead, rubbing a hand up and down, up and down his thigh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth of us 45, born in the same year, four months apart; both married to our spouses for twenty-three years. Two similarities in what had come to seem, in the time we’d known each other, a cosmically-ordained accumulation: born and raised in the desert southwest, allergic to peanuts, obsessed with the Christian mystics and quantum theory and Moby Dick. Children the same ages and genders—older girl, younger boy—and 96-year-old grandmothers who still lived independently. In the end it was this last fact that undid me, the longevity in our respective genes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe safe way to let yourself fall in love with someone who isn’t your spouse: imagine the life you might have together after both your spouses have passed away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(What I mean is, darling: when I made love with you that night, I was making love with the magnificent old man I knew you would become.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan I help with any bags? the bellhop said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou’re at the Hyatt? James said to me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTake us to the Hyatt, he said to the driver, and pulled the door shut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e**\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this story begins where most end: a boy and a girl in love, a wedding, a happily-ever-after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalibu, June. A bride and four attendants on a grassy bluff above the Pacific. The morning is overcast, typical on the coast, the diffuse light ideal for photographs. The bride’s dress is raw silk in antique ivory and appears backlit against the slate of ocean. Sweetheart neckline, cap sleeves, full skirt with a train that will later gather into a bustle. She cradles her bouquet like an infant, six-dozen roses in various stages of bloom, blush pink. The groomsmen, fraternity brothers, have already been photographed. They wait inside the chapel, where in half an hour the ceremony will begin. They wear gray tuxedos with ascot ties and slick black shoes. Three, including the groom, have the same round tortoise-shell glasses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown the coast, at the country club in Pacific Palisades, the caterers are assembling the cake: five tiers frosted in a basket-weave pattern, with real ivy and roses trailing down one side. The bride has selected a different flavor for each tier: butter cream, chocolate, spice, red velvet. The top layer—which will be placed in the couple’s freezer for their first anniversary, until one night while they’re out, the bride’s younger brother, knowing nothing about such traditions, eats the whole thing—is white-chocolate with raspberry-creme filling. The centerpieces are fishbowls with ivy and roses identical to those on the cake. They sit in a refrigerated van on Pacific Coast Highway, north of Sunset. The driver is stuck in beach traffic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there is plenty of time.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“There’s real humanity in this novel, and there are insights about love and longing.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Rolling, raw, and sensual . . . The sentences burn with desire and disquiet. 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Fire Sermon
An unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.
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The Accidental Education of Jerome Lupien
Montreal student Jerome is swept up in a series of misadventures and criminal escapades in this portrait of a city infamously mired in corruption.
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Bitter Orange
A suspenseful novel set in 1969 England about one woman’s obsession with a glamorous, hedonistic couple living downstairs who aren’t what they seem.
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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories
Searing stories that critique the gender pressures and injustices rife in modern Korea from the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Silken Gazelles
An unforgettable story of friendship, love, and the impact of childhood from the first Arabic-language winner of the Man Booker International Prize.
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Scenes from the Underground
I have just heard for the first time the expression “to make soup”: it means to mix the bottom-of-the-pocket drugs of everyone huddled in the club toilet stall, opened MD, ketamine, old dry speed, crushed e pills, to make big lines that will let us forget the past forty-eight hours that have been so difficult.
