London Is the Best City in America - Softcover

Dave, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143038508 ISBN 13: 9780143038504

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2007

Synopsis

The first novel from the acclaimed author of Eight Hundred Grapes and Hello Sunshine

Emmy Everett is reluctantly heading home to New York for her brother Josh’s wedding. She has spent the last three years in a fishing town in Rhode Island and, having little to show for it, she doesn’t particularly want to answer the questions she is sure to face about her (ex)-fiance, her (questionable) career choices, her (unknown) future. But she is still shocked when her typically resolute brother Josh confesses he is having doubts about his imminent marriage – and he asks Emmy the hardest question of all: what do I do now?

With seventy-two hours until the wedding, Emmy embarks with Josh on a road trip to help him find a mystery woman, and to answer some long overdue questions about who he wants to spend his life with. It isn’t only Josh who has some lessons to learn. Along the way, Emmy discovers some undeniable truths about what she wants from her own life; and she begins to realize that perhaps her own happy ending is not as far away as it seems.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Dave's absorbing, piercing debut takes place over a weekend... So much happens in [this] wonderfully plotted first novel that it's hard to believe the events all occur in the space of a few days. Dave expertly captures the ennui and indecision many twenty- and thirtysomethings grapple with when faced with big, life-changing decisions."
--Booklist

"It's hard not to root for these vivid characters; even the heroine's high school flame, Josh's best friend ...Berringer, is distinctive and likable, making Emmy's interest in him contagious. Josh and Emmy's happy, exasperating parents ... round out the cast, giving readers plenty of reasons to enjoy this promising new author."
-Publishers Weekly

"Dave's first novel is beautifully written...[her] characters care more about their personal journeys than their shoe brands. Fans of Melissa Bank and Jennifer Weiner will want to read this one.
-Library Journal

"LONDON IS THE BEST CITY IN AMERICA is a delicious comedy of manners and a smart examination of the heart and its desires. What a sparkling debut!"
-Susan Isaacs, author of LONG TIME NO SEE

"What a wonderful debut this is! I was completely taken with it and read it, neglecting nearly everything else, with the kind of delight one feels when in the thrall of a master storyteller. Laura Dave isn't on her way. She has arrived!"
-Richard Bausch, author of WIVES AND LOVERS

"Incredibly deft, utterly satisfying...I love every character. A triumph of a first novel."
-Melissa Bank, author of THE GIRLS' GUIDE TO HUNTING AND FISHING and THE WONDER SPOT

"Is it possible to have a crush on a book? If so, then I did and do for Laura Dave's fine, funny, surprising first novel."
-Liam Callanan, author of THE CLOUD ATLAS

"With its suspenseful plot, endearing heroine and vivid prose, Laura Dave's LONDON IS THE BEST CITY IN AMERICA is an immensely appealing novel. A sparkling debut."
-Margot Livesey, author of EVA MOVES THE FURNITURE

About the Author:

Laura Dave is the author of the acclaimed novel London is the Best City in America, and most recently of Eight Hundred Grapes. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, Self, Redbook, ESPN the Magazine, and The New York Observer. Cosmopolitan magazine recently named her one of the “Fun and Fearless Phenoms” of the year. Dave currently lives in California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0143038508
• ISBN 13: 9780143038504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272