Laura & Emma Pdf book is a tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth Story SLAM champion.
Laura & Emma Pdf Summary
Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets Jefferson. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura realizes she’s pregnant.
Enter: Emma.
Despite her progressive values, Laura raises Emma by herself in the same blue-blood world of private schools and summer homes she grew up in, buoyed by a host of indelible characters, including her eccentric mother, who informs her society friends and Emma herself that she was fathered by a Swedish sperm donor; her brother, whose childhood stutter reappears in the presence of their forbidding father; an exceptionally kind male pediatrician; and her overbearing best friend, whose life has followed the Park Avenue script in every way except for childbearing. Meanwhile, the apple falls far from the tree with Emma, who begins to question her environment in a way her mother never could.
Told in vignettes that mine the profound from the mundane, with meditations on everything from sex and death to insomnia and the catharsis of crying on the subway, a textured portrait emerges of a woman struggling to understand herself, her daughter, and the changing landscape of New York City in the eighties and nineties.
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About Kate Greathead Author Of Laura & Emma Pdf Book
Kate Greathead is the author of the Laura & Emma. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair, and Moth Radio Hour. She was a subject in the American version of the British Up documentary series, and she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the writer Teddy Wayne.
Laura & Emma pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Simon & Schuster (March 13, 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1501156608
- ISBN-13 : 978-1501156601
- Item Weight : 15.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.5 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #802,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,507 in Mothers & Children Fiction
- #12,884 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction
- #13,270 in Women’s Domestic Life Fiction
- Customer Reviews: 3.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
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