05162cam a2200841 4500 294789078 TxAuBib 20170609120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780399576478 0399576479 B01M5CRWVH Amazon 388ca47f-80df-4b5b-bfe3-dd67977608c3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3014819 OverDrive (Product ID) 3014819 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Segal, Francesca. The Awkward Age [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 852kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 852kB. national jewish book award for fiction. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. costa first novel award. award winning author. francesca sigal. blended family. relationships. birth control. baileys prize. Grandparents. orange prize. high school. miscarriage. betty trask. University. protection. parenting. teenagers. pregnancy. marriages. sami rohr. studying. abortion. mourning. college. Divorce. illness. family. cancer. Nathan. school. tests. Death. exams. grief. life. love. Dogs. loss. gwen. sex. art. HTML:<p>March 20, 2017<br /> This observant comedy of manners about a contemporary blended family by the author of <em>The Innocents</em> is deepened by the author’s compassion for her self-deluded characters. Widowed Julia, a British piano teacher, has just allowed her new love James, an obstetrician from Boston, to move in, and they’re relishing their relationship—except for the presence of their teenage kids. Julia’s gawky, artistic daughter, Gwen, and James’s snarky, intellectual son, Nathan, despise each other and make life miserable for their parents—until they start to become attracted to each other, which creates a much deeper set of problems. James’s ex-wife and the separated parents of Julia’s deceased husband all weigh in on the situation, while going through emotional changes of their own. In prose to savor, Segal reflects on the conflicts between loving one’s spouse and one’s children and the difficulties in putting one’s own offspring first. She skillfully ups the stakes in the battle in which the four primary family members are engaged, as the previously close Julia and Gwen find themselves at war and each aggrieved to be misunderstood by the other. If adolescence is “fraught with awkwardness,” Segal ably demonstrates that adulthood is as well.</p>. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:<b>"A spry and accomplished comedy of manners." <i>—The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /> <br /> <b>"Segal deftly unspools a disastrous but plausible scenario... This page-turner is witty, compassionate and wickedly astute." <i>—People</i></b><br /> <b><br /></b><i>"They've chosen the one thing that will make our family life impossible. It's genius really, when you think about it. It's the perfect sabotage."</i><br /> <br /> Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted—if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness.<br /> This is a moving and powerful novel about the modern family: about starting over; about love, guilt, and generosity; about building something beautiful amid the mess and complexity of what came before. It is a story about standing by the ones we love, even while they make mistakes. We would give anything to make our children happy. But how much should they ask? Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-06-08 23:00:02. http://slc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=388ca47f-80df-4b5b-bfe3-dd67977608c3 https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=388ca47f-80df-4b5b-bfe3-dd67977608c3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=388ca47f-80df-4b5b-bfe3-dd67977608c3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=388ca47f-80df-4b5b-bfe3-dd67977608c3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)