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Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

By Ayelet Waldman

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| Paperback | 9781400095131

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In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.

Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. BContinue

In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.

Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when Emilia has to deal with the most neurotic and sheltered five-year-old in New York City: her new stepson William. Now Emilia finds herself trying to flag down taxis with a giant, industrial-strength car seat, looking for perfect, strawberry-flavored, lactose-free cupcakes, receiving corrections on her French pronunciation from her supercilious stepson – and attempting to find balance in a new family that’s both larger, and smaller, than she bargained for. In Love and Other Impossible Pursuits Ayelet Waldman has created a novel rich with humor and truth, perfectly characterizing one woman’s search for answers in a crazily uncertain world.

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  • "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits"

    (Reviewed by Eleanor Bukowsky JAN 29, 2006) “Love and marriage are about work and compromise. They’re about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed, and deciding to stick around anyway.” Thirty-year old Emilia Greenleaf Woolf is a home wrec ... (read full critics)

    mostlyfiction published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

  • Atom Bomb of Desire

    THERE are some traits that women don't like in other women. These include home wrecking. Let's be more specific: seducing a married man in the workplace. Even worse? Seducing the married father of a small child. We also don't like women who are awkwa ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • New York - present

    Loved the little but oh-so-wise boy! A book that makes you smile but also quite sad, well written and set in Central Park

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