false<![CDATA[After You: A Novel]]>57161003The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of <b>The Opposite of Love</b><i>,</i> delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each other—and ourselves.<br>It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie Lerner’s best friend, Lucy, was murdered in front of her young daughter. And, as best friends do, Ellie dropped everything—her marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbs—to travel to London and pick up the pieces of Lucy’s life. While Lucy’s husband, Greg, copes with his grief by retreating into himself, eight-year-old Sophie has simply stopped speaking.<br><br>Desperate to help Sophie, Ellie turns to a book that gave her comfort as a child, <i>The Secret Garden.</i> As the two spend hours exploring the novel’s winding passageways, its story of hurt, magic, and healing blooms around them. But so, too, do Lucy’s secrets—some big, some small—secrets Lucy kept hidden, even from her best friend. Over a summer in London, as Ellie peels back the layers of her friend’s life, she’s forced to confront her own as well: the marriage she left behind, the loss she’d hoped to escape. And suddenly Ellie’s carefully constructed existence is spinning out of control in a chain of events that will transform her life—and those around her— forever. A novel that will resonate in the heart of anyone who’s had a best friend, a love lost, or a past full of regrets, <b>After You</b> proves once again the unique and compelling talent of Julie Buxbaum.58877162582009After You: A Noveltotal:133|5:25|4:57|3:41|2:9|1:1|1334954655330falsefalseWed Nov 04 08:30:26 -0800 2009Wed Nov 04 08:50:51 -0800 2009
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Let's pretend things are different. That in the last couple of days, I haven't become the kind of person who resorts to wishing on eyelashes, first tears of the night, and the ridiculous 11:11, both a.m. and p.m., in earnest and with my eyes closed.
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Author: Julie Buxbaum
ISBN: 978-0-385-34124-0
Pages: 337
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Publisher: Dial Press
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Wonderful, emotionally-charged, character driven story about loss, love and the p...more...]]>
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40falsefalseThu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009Wed Jul 01 05:10:48 -0700 2009Fri Jul 10 06:13:59 -0700 2009 At first, I had mixed feelings. The beginning seemed so very basic and tidy -- a rich lady goes to Notting Hill to help out her best friend's rich family after she has been brutally stabbed in front of her 8-year old daugh...more...]]>
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After You was a decent book. It wasn't great and it wasn't awful. The story line is fairly well thought out and interesting, as are the characters. The writing, however, wasn't spectacular. The metaphors are mostly trivial, as are most of the descriptions of the characters. Ideally, there could have...more...]]>
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30falsefalseTue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sat Jul 18 16:55:41 -0700 2009Sat Jul 18 16:55:41 -0700 2009 For the most part I believe that Buxbaum accomplishes what she sets ou...more...]]>
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30falsefalseSat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sat Jul 04 11:13:36 -0700 2009Sun Jul 05 19:35:30 -0700 2009 3 1/2 stars. Marketed to fans of Jodi Picoult, this doesn't quite measure up to Picoult's complex, gripping novels--but then very few do. I loved precocious little Sophie and the way Buxbaum worked The Secret Garden into the novel. I also appreciat...more...]]>
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The Opposite of Love so much that I was a little afraid I wouldn't like After You as much, but it was just as good! I think she may be one of my new favorite authors! After You follows Ellie Lerner after the sudden death of her best friend Lucy. Ellie goes to...more...]]>
30falsefalseMon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009Thu Jul 02 08:44:19 -0700 2009Mon Jul 27 18:46:27 -0700 20091 With that first line I was hooked. It was immediately apparent by the excellent writing that this is not Buxbaum's first book. I love how insightful this book is, the words pointing out so many things that hadn't occurred to me but ...more...]]>
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