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Family Happiness

by Laurie Colwin

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To the rest of the world Polly Solo-Miller Demarest lives a charmed life.  She has a beautiful home, a dashing lawyer husband, and two delightful children.  But beneath this idyllic surface, the pressure of being the “perfect flower&r... Read more
To the rest of the world Polly Solo-Miller Demarest lives a charmed life.  She has a beautiful home, a dashing lawyer husband, and two delightful children.  But beneath this idyllic surface, the pressure of being the “perfect flower” of an illustrious family—and a stable, always-available wife, mother, and daughter––are getting to her.  The spark has gone out of her marriage, and to her own surprise, she's having an affair.  What follows is at once cathartic and incredibly tense, and both may be necessary ingredients for Polly to grow into the kind of person she's happy to be.   Kind yet candid, as all of Laurie Colwin's books are, Family Happiness is a heartfelt novel about a midlife crisis and a woman tired of being taken for granted––and a reminder that family, like happiness, can take many forms. Less

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File size8.05x5.46x0.63inches
Print pages288
PublisherHarper Perennial
Publication date December 1, 2000
Languageeng
ISBN9780060958978
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Laurie Colwin
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Laurie Colwin (June 14, 1944 – Oct 24, 1992) was an American writer who wrote five novels, three collections of short stories and two volumes of essays and recipes. She was known for her portrayals ...

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