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For almost 40 years, the Hellinger sisters of Hastings-on-Hudson - namely, Imperia (Perri), Olympia (Pia), and Augusta (Gus) - have played the roles arranged down by their loving but domineering mom, Carol. Perri, a mom of three, guidelines her four-bedroom palace in Westchester with a velvet fist, controlling to fold even fitted sheets into immaculate rectangles. Pia, a beautiful and fashionable events coordinator at a museum on the Upper East Part, who became an individual mom via sperm donation, still turns heads. And Gus, a fiercely independent attorney and activist, doesn't let her break up with her lover stop her from participating New Year's Day protests on her behalf way to a family group brunch. But the Hellinger women aren't tugging off their functions the way they once have. Perri, increasingly filled with rage over the lack of appreciation from her just lately unemployed man, Mike, is participating in a steamy text flirtation with a college fling. Pia, eager to find you to definitely share in the pain and pleasure of boosting her three-year-old child, Lola, can't stop fantasizing about Donor #6103. And Gus, heartbroken over the loss of her lover, is magnetically attracted to Jeff, Mike's frat young man of a little brother. Each female is unable to assume that anyone, especially her sisters, could know very well what it's prefer to be her. But when a freak car accident lands their mom in the hospital, a chain of events is defined in motion that will send each Hellinger sister rocketing out of her safe place, leaving her to ponder: was this the role she was truly delivered to play? With The Pretty One, Lucinda Rosenfeld does for siblings what she have for female friendship in I'm So Happy for You, turning her wickedly funny and sharply observant eye on the lifelong pleasures and punishments of sisterhood.
