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The awkward age:a Novel
[Paperback - 2018]
francesca segal
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Riverhead Books | ISBN: 9780399576461 | Pages: 368
Shipping Weight: .281 | Dimensions: 5.17 x .94 x 8 inches

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"A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic novel about a wedged-together family, and what can go wrong when teenage children decide they have minds (and hormones) of their own." —Nick Hornby 

“A spry and accomplished comedy of manners.” —The New York Times Book Review

“They've chosen the one thing that will make our family life impossible. It's genius really, when you think about it. It's the perfect sabotage.”
 
Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness.

This is a moving and powerful novel about the modern family: about starting over; about love, guilt, and generosity; about building something beautiful amid the mess and complexity of what came before. It is a story about standing by the ones we love, even while they make mistakes. We would give anything to make our children happy. But how much should they ask?

About the Author

Winner of the 2012 Costa Prize for First Fiction.Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for FictionWinner of the 2013 Sami Rohr PrizeWinner of the 2013 Premio Letterario Edoardo Kihlgren Opera Prima in MilanWinner of the 2013 Harold U. Ribalow PrizeLong-listed for the 2013 Women's Prize for FictionFrancesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. Her work has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the Financial Times, and both American and British Vogue, amongst others. She has been a features writer at Tatler, and for three years wrote the Debut Fiction column in the Observer.

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