Lorna Mott Comes Home A Novel

Diane Johnson, Maggi-Meg Reed

eAudio - 2021

From the author of the best-selling Le Divorce and Le Mariage, a comedy of contemporary manners, morals, (ex)marriages, and motherhood (past, present, and future)—about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French second husband, returning to her native San Francisco and to the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren. “Delightful”—Claire Messud (Harper’s Magazine); “Razor-sharp prose and astute observations ... a treat”—Publishers Weekly (starred review).Lorna Mott Dumas, small, pretty, high-strung, the epitome of a successful woman—lovely offspring, grandchildren, health, a French husband, a delightful house and an independent career as an admired art lecturer involving travel and public appearan...ces, expensive clothes. She's a woman with an uncomplicated, sociable nature and an intellectual life.But in an impulsive and planned decision, Lorna has decided to leave... more