Coming Up for Air
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312610395 (0312610394)
Publish date: August 16th 2011
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 261
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Romance,
Adult,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Southern,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Coming Up For Air by Patti Callahan HenryStory starts out with Elle and she's very busy even with her daughter now in college, her husband busy at work and golfing with her dad.Her mother keeps her busy with committees, etc til the day she just dies. Story goes back in time where we learn of her mot...
Still waiting for this to arrive... won through Goodreads First Reads Giveaways... hope it didn't get lost in the mail... Won this at the end of June and it is now August... still no book :(
This book was so-so for me. I liked Uncle Cotton, but really couldn't take to the main character at all. Ellie was selfish and very self-centered and all I wanted to do was smack her at times. The mid-life crisis was boring - done way too many times: woman doesn't like marriage and focuses on old bo...
Makes me want to visit Alabama and experience a Jubilee!
3.5 starsEllie mother passes and she finds a journal her mom kept throughout her life. In it are passages from every New Year's Eve since she was young. Ellie, a wife and mother now, reads it and finds that her mom's life wasn't what she thought it was. It sends Ellie on a soul-searching journey to ...
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