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Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her run to discover that a terrible incident has shaken the neighborhood, and the fault lines begin to open: on the block, at her job, especially in her marriage. With humor, understanding, an acute eye, and a warm heart, Anna Quindlen explores what it means to be a mother, a wife, and a woman at a moment of reckoning.… (més)
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Quintessential Quindlen. Varied, flawed characters all; snappy dialogue; perfect observations; familiar themes. I struggled a bit getting sucked into the story, but the writing always held my attention, and then I was just immersed and did not want the story to end. Ms. Quindlen’s writing continues to captivate me, ever since the days of her New York Times column, “About New York” in the early 1980s, when I was a young mother at home with two sons in the suburbs. Fast forward to 1997. I am at the end of my second year of law school, with my oldest son about to graduate high school. Ms. Quindlen is the graduation speaker at Rutgers Law School-Newark for some of my friends and colleagues on the law journal the year ahead of me, and I attend. Fast forward to 2018; my three sons are grown and on their own, but I still feel the essential tug of Ms. Quindlen’s writing, those “Yes! Yes! Yes!” moments of synchronicity. As I said at the beginning, quintessential Quindlen. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
This book is easy to read and creates a pretty vivid portrait of the kind of stereotypical New Yorkers that non New Yorkers hate.

This story is about one particular block in Manhattan and the people who live there. They are rich, pretentious and seem to think they are better than everyone in every possible way - even better than all the other people on the block. I seriously took a strong dislike to everyone in the whole book but especially our protagonist Nora who was just insufferable. I feel like I lived through the midlife crisis of Nora and her husband and I’m left thinking THANK GOD I don’t spend my life around people like them.

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  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
Just couldn’t get interested in the characters or the plot. I couldn’t bring myself to care about the parking lot or the neighbors. Disappointing. ( )
  ellink | Jan 22, 2024 |
I can't say I was thrilled with the book. I started with the eBook, and then was able to get a copy of the audiobook (the reader was good).
The book was ok, but seemed to have so many petty issues I didn't really care about. The last section where she talked about the things she learned was what changed it to 3 stars. ( )
  Wren73 | Mar 4, 2022 |
Not my favorite Anna Quindlen, but it had some good moments, especially in Nora's reflections on New York City. The characters didn't feel all that fleshed out, though, and I didn't find even the ones I was supposed to connect with sympathetic very often. ( )
  CaitlinMcC | Jul 11, 2021 |
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She'd realized that that was how life was, that certain small moments were like billboards forever alongside the highway of your memory.
The truth was that some of their marriages were like balloons: a few went suddenly pop, but more often than not the air slowly leaked out until it was a sad, wrinkled little thing with no life to it anymore.
People go through life thinking they're making decisions, when they're really just making plans, which is not the same thing at all.
Marriage vows, Nora had long felt, constituted a loyalty oath.
All her friends said women left because they were unhappy, and men left because they'd found someone new to be unhappy with.
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Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her run to discover that a terrible incident has shaken the neighborhood, and the fault lines begin to open: on the block, at her job, especially in her marriage. With humor, understanding, an acute eye, and a warm heart, Anna Quindlen explores what it means to be a mother, a wife, and a woman at a moment of reckoning.

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