"This is an absolute heartbreaker of a novel. I loved it." - Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year With Nora Ephron-style lightness, Catherine Newman has constructed a truly singular tale of love and friendship in the twenty-first century. "A novel set in a hospice has no right to be as hilarious, charming, and hopeful as We All Want Impossible Things.
"Catherine Newman's book We All Want Impossible Things is hilarious and heartbreaking and I die for her." - Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of Quietly Hostile a winning novel." - Julie Klam, New York Times Book Review Newman's voice is hilarious and warm her characters feel like old friend. "Excruciatingly heartbreaking, but I laughed out loud on almost every page.
Meanwhile, Ash struggles with being an imperfect friend, wife, and parent-with life, in other words, distilled to its heartbreaking, joyful, and comedic essence.įor anyone who's ever lost a friend or had one. Edi is dying of ovarian cancer and spending her last days at a hospice near Ash, who stumbles into heartbreak surrounded by her daughters, ex(ish) husband, dear friends, a poorly chosen lover (or two), and a rotating cast of beautifully, fleetingly human hospice characters.Īs The Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack blasts all day long from the room next door, Edi and Ash reminisce, hold on, and try to let go. As Ash says, "Edi's memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine."īut now the unthinkable has happened. They've shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking Gilligan's Island reruns and REM concerts hickeys and heartbreak surprise Scottish wakes marriages, infertility, and children. "The funniest, most joyful book about dying-and living-that I have ever read."-KJ Dell'Antonia, author of the New York Times bestselling The Chicken Sistersįor lovers of Meg Wolitzer, Maria Semple, and Jenny Offill comes this raucous, poignant celebration of life, love, and friendship at its imperfect and radiant best.Įdith and Ashley have been best friends for over forty-two years. Newman is a comic masterhand and a dazzling philosopher of the day-to-day."-Amity Gaige, author of Sea Wife I laughed while crying, and was left revived. Newman turns her prodigious talents toward finding joy even in the friendship's final days. The story of Edi and Ash proves that a best friend is a gift from the gods. "A riotously funny and fiercely loyal love letter to female friendship. She's a writer's writer-and a human's human."- New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center The way she finds the extraordinary in the everyday is nothing short of poetry. "Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and unflinching compassion.
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