Today Will Be Different - Softcover

Semple, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316403458 ISBN 13: 9780316403450

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2017

Synopsis

* Instant New York Times Bestseller *
A brilliant novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.

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.

TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.

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Review:

"Semple has mastered the intersection of sad and nuts like no one else.... Like a cross between Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, the best episides of Bob's Burgers, and the private journal of the smartest, most irritable woman you know, TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT is a reckless and scattershot work of genius."--Heather Havrilesky, Bookforum

"It's the promise of what tomorrow holds for Eleanor that makes her worth getting to know"--Shannon Carlin, Bust

"Downright hard to put down.... unrelentingly entertaining, with some nice pathos thrown in the mix."--Steph Cha, USA Today (3/4 stars)

"Absolutely delicious black comedy.... A witty delight."--Yvonne Zipp, Christian Science Monitor

"Humorously depicts the struggle to keep it together."--Jamie Blynn, US Weekly

"Comedic and charming."--Leigh Nordstrom, Women's Wear Daily

"We've all had the 'day from hell, ' but we can't make it as clever, fun, or whip-smart as Semple, the presiding queen of literary screwball satire."--National Book Review

"There are few readers who won't find the pathos and struggle of [Eleanor's] journey towards her new and really authentic self genuine and heartfelt."--Jana Siciliano, Bookreporter

"[Semple's] a master at creating comedy out of the neuroses of people with too much time and money on their hands."--Izzy Grinspan, New York Magazine

"Semple...has a singular genius for turning the ordinary inside-out and looking at it slantwise.... The allusions are quick and rich, the riffs nonstop and spot-on, and the results surprising."--Ellen Akins, Newsday

Book Description:

The new novel from Maria Semple, author of bestselling Where'd You Go, Bernadette and writer for hit US TV shows Ellen and Saturday Night Live. Meet Eleanor Flood, who wakes up one day determined to be her best self.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0316403458
• ISBN 13: 9780316403450
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288