Tired ladies take a stand : a novel

Tired ladies take a stand A novel

Gretchen Anthony

Book - 2024

During one unforgettable year in their twenties, best friends Emma, Fern, Carolina, and Andi make a pact to embrace whatever life throws at them, inspiring Fern to write a memoir detailing their escapades and the magical power of saying Yes. But fast forward twenty years and they have reached their bandwidth of responsibilities. Fern is a full-time writer struggling to pay the bills. Carolina is a fitness-obsessed workaholic. Andi is a disillusioned human rights lawyer. And Emma is a stressed-out divorče in the thick of planning her daughter's wedding. To reconnect to the fun, fulfilled women they were before, they must learn how to stop saying Yes to everything asked of them. And so begins the "Year of No." --

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Subjects
Friendship > Fiction.
Authors > Fiction.
Women > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women > Fiction.
Middle age > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Genres
Domestic fiction
Novels
Published
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Park Row 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Gretchen Anthony (author)
Physical Description
328 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780778307969
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

Anthony (The Book Haters' Book Club, 2022) presents a story about four friends who came of age in the 1990s and are still close. When Fern McAllister wrote a compilation of essays about herself and her friends back in the Sex and the City era, she never believed it would go viral. The book had a lukewarm reception back then, but now Gen Z has picked it up on TikTok. Fern's best friends--Carolina, Andi, and Emma--have always been prickly about their inclusion in the essays, but each one of them has her own problems as well. Carolina's constant exercising is stressing her body, Andi struggles with her son's poor attitude, and Emma is both recovering from a divorce and planning her daughter's wedding. Yet their friendship is the glue that holds them together. Anthony's novels are always engaging and easy to read. When difficult topics come up, the characters are able to find humor while coping. For those who remember the 1990s, the flashbacks will evoke feelings of nostalgia.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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