"Equal parts funny and searingly beautiful...well worth the ride." -- **_New York Daily News_** "Feldman's engaging novel offers sublime levity to balance the gravity of his characters' various struggles, and Adam's and Marissa's tales interweave effortlessly as they search for meaning among many d
Start Without Me
β Scribed by Feldman, Joshua Max
- Book ID
- 109876461
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 645 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062668745
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β¦ Synopsis
The author of the critically acclaimed The Book of Jonah explores questions of love and choice, disappointment and hope in the lives of two strangers who meet by chance in this mesmerizing tale that unfolds over one Thanksgiving Day.
Adam is a former musician and recovering alcoholic who is home for Thanksgiving for the first time in many years. Surrounded by his parents and siblings, nieces and nephews--all who have seen him at his worst--he can't shake the feeling that no matter how hard he tries, he'll always be the one who can't get it right.
Marissa is a flight attendant whose marriage is strained by simmering tensions over race, class, and ambition. Heading to her in-laws for their picture-perfect holiday family dinner, her anxiety is intensified by the knowledge she is pregnant from an impulsive one-night-stand.
In an airport restaurant on Thanksgiving morning, Adam and Marissa meet. Over the course of this day fraught with emotion and...
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