Book description
When her professional and family life collide, a playwright starts journaling every morning to push through her writer's block in this laugh-out-loud and fresh take on family, friendship, and the chaos of midlife.
"[A] winning adult debut..." -Publishers Weekly
"A heartwarming, sometimes hilarious meditation on writer's block, expectations, and theā¦
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1 author picked Morning Pages as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Writing a play within a novel is a daunting task, but Kate Feiffer pulls it off with aplomb. The tangled story of Elise and the cast of colorful charactersāreal and imaginedāin her life had me laughing out loud at times, teary-eyed at others. Feifferās prose is sparkling, the wordplay is clever but not too precious, and the situations her characters get themselves into are just this side of plausible. The novel features universal themesāfamily drama, aging parents, sullen teenagers, horrible dates, work pressuresāwrapped in a madcap tale worthy of one of the old movies Eliseās foul-mouthed mother Trudy watches endlessly.ā¦
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