Days of Awe (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Fox, Lauren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307388271 ISBN 13: 9780307388278

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016

Synopsis

Only a year ago Isabel Moore was married, was the object of adoration for her ten-year-old daughter, and thought she knew everything about her best friend, Josie. But in one short year Isabel’s husband moved out; her daughter grew into a moody insomniac; and Josie—impulsive, funny, secretive Josie—was killed behind the wheel in a single-car accident that’s left a mess of unanswered questions in its wake.

Suddenly, the relationships that have always defined Isabel—wife, mother, best friend—are changing before her eyes. As Isabel struggles to understand who she really is, Lauren Fox brings us a daring book that explores marriage, motherhood, and the often surprising shape of new love.

About this title

Review:

An Amazon Best Book of August 2015: Days of Awe could be maudlin, it could be filled with clichés about loss and floundering in midlife, worse: it could be dull. Instead, it's wry, smart, shiny, and bright--filled with observations about grief and loss that will make you sit up and begin to underline. In the span of a year Isabel Moore's life comes crashing down: her best friend Josie dies; her marriage crumbles; Hannah, her "sad, snarling wolf cub of a girl" turns against her and she's left to pick up the pieces. In coping with her new life, where "the silence in the house came alive, grew feral" Isabel slides and slips from narrating her present to remembering her past – from the spark of meeting someone new to an eighth grade history assignment, from her husband packing his bags to their troubles conceiving, from her weekly bawdy confessionals with Josie to uncovering Josie's secrets after her death. Despite its hard-hitting and heart-hurting subject matter, Lauren Fox (the accomplished author of Friends Like Us and Still Life With Husband delivers a witty, moving and enjoyable portrait of how motherhood, marriage, friendship and memories keep you barreling forward. –Al Woodworth

About the Author:

LAUREN FOX is the author of the novels Still Life with Husband and Friends Like Us. She earned her MFA from the University of Minnesota, and her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Marie Claire, Parenting, Psychology Today, The Rumpus, and Salon. She lives in Milwaukee with her husband and two daughters.

www.laurenfoxwriter.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0307388271
• ISBN 13: 9780307388278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272