A01=Nina Solomon
Author_Nina Solomon
Category=FB
charade
completely consumed
deception
doesnt return
elaborate
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eq_nobargain
family
favorite music
friends
housekeeper
husband
husbands disappearance
in denial
kidnapped
lying to friends and family
missing husband
murdered
neighbors
overbearing
parents
recreating his life
rumpling the sheets
run away from home
several weeks
side of the bed
still around
truth
upper east side
young woman
Product details
- ISBN 9781616206260
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 2015
- Publisher: Workman Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Grace Brookman's husband is missing. He wasn't kidnapped or murdered (she's fairly certain); he just seems to have run away from home. He got up one morning, and with an offhand "Gracie, I'll be back in a little while," he was gone. Laz had left before, but this time, when several weeks pass and he doesn't return, Grace copes with the situation by pretending to family and friends that he's still around. At first, Grace covers for Laz in little ways: rumpling the sheets on his side of the bed every morning for the housekeeper, turning up his favorite music so the neighbors will hear it, leaving the doorman a daily cup of coffee, just as Laz always did. Soon Grace's life is completely consumed with re-creating his life. Over time the deception takes on a life of its own as her charade becomes more elaborate and she begins lying to friends and family, even her overbearing, ever-present Upper East Side parents. Grace finds herself steeped in denial about the truth of her husband's disappearance--and the truth about him, as clues arise to suggest that he isn't the man she thought he was. In the spirit of Laura Zigman and Jennifer Weiner, Nina Solomon gives us a portrait of a young woman unraveled, who attempts to pull herself back together in the face of a most unusual crisis.
Nina Solomon received her MA from Columbia University. She lives in Manhattan with her son, Nathaniel.
