**From National Book Award finalist and the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _The Year We Left Home_ comes ****a moving family saga about three generations of women who struggle to find freedom and happiness in their small Midwestern college town.** _A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl_ is a poign
A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl
β Scribed by Thompson, Jean
- Book ID
- 110302522
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781501194368
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β¦ Synopsis
**From National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home comes **a moving family saga about three generations of women who struggle to find freedom and happiness in their small Midwestern college town.
A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl is a poignant novel about three generations of the Wise family--Evelyn, Laura, and Grace--as they hunt for contentment amid chaos of their own making.
Evelyn set aside her career to marry, late, and motherhood never became her. Her daughter Laura felt this acutely and wants desperately to marry, but she soon discovers her husband Gabe to be a man who expects too much of everyone in his life, especially his musician son. Grace has moved out from Laura and Gabe's house, but can't seem to live up to her potential--whatever that might be.
In A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl we see these women and their trials, small and large: social slights...
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