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From The New York Times bestselling author of Carry the One, a new novel that explores what happens when a group of friends are confronted with their worst fears . . .As she turns off the ignition and gets out of the car, the DJ is saying, "New song by Neko Case, right after the weather-" Cate loves Neko Case, and if she's quick, she can get back in time to hear the song. Cate is a stage designer in her early forties, embroiled in theatre proj...

The author of the "graceful and compassionate" (People) New York Times bestseller Carry the One and "one of the best storytellers we have" (Amy Bloom, author of White Houses) presents a vividly affecting novel exploring what happens when one chance encounter forces four ordinary people to discover who they really are.It's the fall of 2016. Cate, a set designer in her early forties, lives and works in Chicago's theater community. She knows it's...

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Chicago, 2016. Cate is a stage designer in her early forties with a firm plan to fix up her life. Though she's started a promising new relationship with the glamorous Maureen, she is haunted by an old, still-seductive affair. On top of this, her newly heartbroken ex-husband is now camped out in Cate's spare bedroom, in thrall to online conspiracy theories. The best model of serious adulthood in her life is her best friend Neale, a yoga instruc...

Imagine how different your life would be if you had made other choices at a crucial turning point in the past. Aquamarine probes that tantalizing idea through the character of Jesse Austin, a former Olympic swimmer who, at age 17, lost the gold medal in the Mexico City games--a loss that has haunted her ever since.

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Hailed as "beautifully observed” (The New York Times) and "a brilliant feat of storytelling” (The Boston Globe), Carol Anshaw's New York Times bestselling novel is one of the most acclaimed books of the year. "When you add us up, you always have to carry the one." Following a devastating moment in the hours after Carmen's wedding, three siblings and their friends move through the next twenty-five years under its long shadow. Through friendship...

Wie geht man mit dem plötzlichen Verschwinden einer geliebten Person um? Kannte man eigentlich diesen Menschen, dem man vertraute und den man zu lieben glaubte? Carol Anshaw lotet in einer Geschichte voller psychologischer Spannung die Vermeintlichkeit von Sicherheiten aus. Christine Snow, Therapeutin in Chicago, hat nach einigen Umwegen zu einem halbwegs häuslichen Glück mit ihrer Geliebten Taylor Heyes, einer Fotografin, gefunden. Sie teile...

1968 gewann Jesse Austin im olympischen Finale über 100 Meter Freistil die Silbermedaille, gab den Sieg an ihre Konkurrentin Marty ab, die in höchst irritierender Weise Jesses Sexualität geweckt hatte. Von diesem Erlebnis aus entwirft Carol Anshaw drei mögliche »Zukünfte« für Jesse: einmal verheiratet mit einem netten Mann in der Provinz, einmal erfolgreiche Professorin in New York und zuletzt alleinerziehende Mutter zweier unglücklicher Jugen...

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Olympic swimmer Jesse Austin is seduced and consequently edged out for a gold medal by her Australian rival. From there, Anshaw intricately traces three possible paths for Jesse, spinning exhilarating variations on the themes of lost love and parallel lives unlived. Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina, writes, "I found myself wishing I could buy a dozen copies and start a discussion group, just so I'd be able to debate all the q...

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