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With wry candor and tender humor, acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love many people no real matter what.
For Emilia Greenleaf, life is by turns a comedy of errors and an emotional minefield. Yes, she’s a Harvard Law grad who married her soul mate. Yes, they live in elegant comfort on top of the West Side of Manhattan. But with her one-and-only, Jack, came a stepson—a know-it-all preschooler named William who is becoming her number one responsibility every Wednesday afternoon. With William, Emilia encounters a number of impossible pursuits—like the pursuit of cab drivers who speed away when they see William’s industrial-strength carseat and the pursuit of lactose-free, strawberry-flavored, patisserie-quality cupcakes, despite the fact that William’s allergy is a figment of his over-protective mother’s imagination.
As much as Emilia wants to find common ground with William, she becomes completely preoccupied when she loses her newborn daughter. Following this, the sight of any child brings her to tears, and Wednesdays with William are extremely difficult. When his unceasing questions turn to the baby’s death, Emilia reaches a total loss. Doesn’t anyone recognize that self-pity is a full-time job? Ironically, it is only through her blundering attempts to bond with William that she finally heals herself and learns what family really means
