false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172340228m/165145.jpg 165145 12 In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman&#8217;s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.<br><br>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 &#8211; and attempting to find balance in a new family that&#8217;s both larger, and smaller, than she bargained for. In <i>Love and Other Impossible Pursuits</i> Ayelet Waldman has created a novel rich with humor and truth, perfectly characterizing one woman&#8217;s search for answers in a crazily uncertain world. 168230 2006 Love and Other Impossible Pursuits total:717|5:104|4:269|3:259|2:72|1:13| 717 2530 1086 152 3 3 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 19:06:28 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 06:49:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 18:38:38 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 21:27:41 -0700 2009
The beginning was slow, and I didn't even think I was going to get to the middle - as mu...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Feb 05 09:45:08 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:45:08 -0800 2009 A few critics drew parallels between Emilia's life and the author's own; after all, Waldman achieved some sort of fame last year after she publicly announced that she loved her husband, novelist Michael Chabon, more than her four children. Alter-ego or not, Emilia and her evolving relationship with ...

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