Title: We Can Still Be Friends
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 2003
Description: This novel expands upon two quotations from Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, exploring connection and isolation among four friends: Ava Martel, a professor of Women's Studies in Chicago; her boyfriend, Tony Ferro, a cardiac surgeon; and Boyd and Claire Buchanan, respectively a film producer and a professor of Art History in Los Angeles. Permutations ensue, made significant by the desire for parenthood. The original title was American Minuet, which more accurately reflects the book's ambition to comment on professional, marital, social, and sexual life in modern America.
Subjects: Single mothers, Separation (Psychology), Rejection (Psychology), Fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction, psychological, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary
Places: Chicago, Los Angeles, Memphis, Santa Fe
Time periods: contemporary
LC classification: PS3553.H357 W4 2003