Laura & Emma

Fiction & Literature, Literary, Contemporary Women
Cover of the book Laura & Emma by Kate Greathead, Simon & Schuster
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Kate Greathead ISBN: 9781501156632
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication: March 13, 2018
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Language: English
Author: Kate Greathead
ISBN: 9781501156632
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication: March 13, 2018
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Language: English

“Masterly deftness, funny sentence by funny sentence...a moving and intricately braided story of two mothers.”Jonathan Franzen, The Guardian

This “beguiling, addictive read” (People, Book of the Week) and Belletrist Book Club pick about a blue-blooded single mother raising her daughter in rarefied New York City is a “carefully observed family story [that] rings true to life” (The New York Times Book Review).

Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets a man. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she’s pregnant.

Enter: Emma.

“Unputdownable” (Library Journal) and “wryly observed” (Vogue), Laura & Emma follows Laura as she raises Emma in New York City over the next fifteen years. With wit and compassion, Kate Greathead explores the many flaws and quirks that make us human. Laura’s story hosts a cast of effervescent and original characters, including her eccentric mother, who informs her society friends and Emma herself that she was fathered by a Swedish sperm donor; her brother, whose childhood stutter reappears in the presence of their forbidding father; an exceptionally kind male pediatrician; and her overbearing best friend, whose life has followed the Park Avenue script in every way except for childbearing.

“Kate Greathead’s debut novel gamely takes on class conflict, single motherhood, and the discreet pretension of the 1980s Upper East Side” (New York magazine) and is a “layered story about mothers and daughters and identity” (Entertainment Weekly). Told in vignettes whose every “restrained and understated sentence has been polished to glittering brightness” (Vox), Laura & Emma is “an incisive comedy of manners about class divides and the ‘burdens’ of being born privileged” (Esquire) and “a thoughtful novel of trying to find oneself despite an assigned place in the world” (Publishers Weekly).

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

“Masterly deftness, funny sentence by funny sentence...a moving and intricately braided story of two mothers.”Jonathan Franzen, The Guardian

This “beguiling, addictive read” (People, Book of the Week) and Belletrist Book Club pick about a blue-blooded single mother raising her daughter in rarefied New York City is a “carefully observed family story [that] rings true to life” (The New York Times Book Review).

Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets a man. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she’s pregnant.

Enter: Emma.

“Unputdownable” (Library Journal) and “wryly observed” (Vogue), Laura & Emma follows Laura as she raises Emma in New York City over the next fifteen years. With wit and compassion, Kate Greathead explores the many flaws and quirks that make us human. Laura’s story hosts a cast of effervescent and original characters, including her eccentric mother, who informs her society friends and Emma herself that she was fathered by a Swedish sperm donor; her brother, whose childhood stutter reappears in the presence of their forbidding father; an exceptionally kind male pediatrician; and her overbearing best friend, whose life has followed the Park Avenue script in every way except for childbearing.

“Kate Greathead’s debut novel gamely takes on class conflict, single motherhood, and the discreet pretension of the 1980s Upper East Side” (New York magazine) and is a “layered story about mothers and daughters and identity” (Entertainment Weekly). Told in vignettes whose every “restrained and understated sentence has been polished to glittering brightness” (Vox), Laura & Emma is “an incisive comedy of manners about class divides and the ‘burdens’ of being born privileged” (Esquire) and “a thoughtful novel of trying to find oneself despite an assigned place in the world” (Publishers Weekly).

More books from Simon & Schuster

Cover of the book Siddhartha by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book Farewell, Fred Voodoo by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book What My Mother and I Don't Talk About by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book The Relic Master by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book Can One Balloon Make an Elephant Fly? by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book Two Hours by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book Rainbow High by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book The Leader In You by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book The Future Is Faster Than You Think by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book Where Are You Now? by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book The 47th Samurai by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book Bloodlines by Kate Greathead
Cover of the book The New Elegant But Easy Cookbook by Kate Greathead
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy