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Today I'm participating in Can't-Wait Wednesday, an ongoing mid-week event hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings. It's a chance to share a book that hasn't been published yet but is already on my TBR list.
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This week's selection is . . .
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| Expected publication March 14, 2023 |
From GoodReads: The only child of an iconic American novelist
discovers a shocking tangle of family secrets that upends everything
she thought she knew about her parents, her gilded childhood, and her
own stalled writing career.
Growing up in the nineties in
New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing
and a curse for Isabelle Manning. Her beautiful society hostess mother,
Claire, and New York Times bestselling author father, Ward, were
the city’s intellectual It couple. Ward’s glamorous obligations often
took him away from Isabelle, but Claire made sure her childhood was
always filled with magic and love.
Now an adult, all Isabelle
wants is to be a successful writer like her father but after many false
starts and the unexpected death of her mother, she faces her upcoming
thirty-fifth birthday alone and on the verge of a breakdown. Her anxiety
only skyrockets when she uncovers some shocking truths about her
parents and begins wondering if everything she knew about her family was
all based on an elaborate lie.
Wry, wise, and propulsive, A Likely Story
is punctuated with fragments of a compulsively readable
book-within-a-book about a woman determined to steal back the spotlight
from a man who has cheated his way to the top. The characters seem
eerily familiar but is the plot based on fact? And more importantly, who
is the author?
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I'm always intrigued by family secrets and how they can change the course of someone's life.
What book are you waiting for?
This Can't-Wait Wednesday post was originally composed and/or compiled by Catherine for the Book Club Librarian blog.
