Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400095131)

In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman's passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when Emilia has to deal with the most neurotic and sheltered five-year-old in New York City: her new stepson William. Now Emilia finds herself trying to flag down taxis with a giant, industrial-strength car seat, looking for perfect, strawberry-flavored, lactose-free cupcakes, receiving corrections on her French pronunciation from her supercilious stepson - and attempting to find balance in a new family that's both larger, and smaller, than she bargained for. In Love and Other Impossible Pursuits Ayelet Waldman has created a novel rich with humor and truth, perfectly characterizing one woman's search for answers in a crazily uncertain world.

Author: Ayelet Waldman
ISBN-10: 1400095131
ISBN-13: 9781400095131
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.28w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/21/2007 pg. 20