Today will be different
Subtitle: a novel
By: Maria Semple
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780316403436; 9780316467063; 9780316466233
Subjects: Fiction; Family secrets; Mothers and sons; Contemporary Women; Humorous; Animators; Family Life; FICTION; FICTION / Family Life; Literary; FICTION / Humorous / General; General; FICTION / Contemporary Women
Description: Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action, life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office -- but not Eleanor -- that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret. A hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.