Description
From the celebrated author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette comes a brilliantly witty, exuberant, and deeply moving novel exploring a woman’s unexpected mid-life transformation. The narrative introduces Adora Hazzard, a dedicated Stoic philosopher and contentedly divorced woman navigating life on New York City’s Upper West Side. Believing the ultimate key to happiness is wanting only what you already possess, Adora enjoys a highly structured, blissful routine centered on her teenage daughter, her professional job tutoring twin boys, and her coven of close-knit female neighbors inhabiting her historic building floor.
However, her meticulously curated world completely unravels following a chance encounter with a charismatic stranger. Swept into a vortex of forbidden desires, black-market art deals, secret encounters, and international intrigue, the carefully buried elements of her past collide with her present like a bomb. Rich with razor-sharp humor and immense emotional heart, this triumphant story tracks an intellectual woman forced to choose between a life of rigid comfort or risking everything to embrace true emotional vulnerability.
