Falling Together
It's been six years since Pen Calloway watched Cat and Will, her best friends from college, walk out of her life. Through the birth of her daughter, the death of her father, and the vicissitudes of single motherhood, she has never stopped missing them. When, after years of silence, Cat—the...
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It's been six years since Pen Calloway watched Cat and Will, her best friends from college, walk out of her life. Through the birth of her daughter, the death of her father, and the vicissitudes of single motherhood, she has never stopped missing them. When, after years of silence, Cat—the bewitching, charismatic center of their group—urgently requests that the three meet at their college reunion, Pen can't refuse. But instead of a happy reconciliation, what awaits is a collision of past and present that sends Pen and Will on a journey around the world, with Pen's five-year-old daughter and Cat's hostile husband in tow. And as Pen and Will struggle to uncover the truth about Cat, they find more than they bargained for: startling truths about who they were before and who they are now. With her trademark wit, vivid prose, and gift for creating authentic, captivating characters, Marisa de los Santos returns with an emotionally resonant novel about our deepest human connections.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061670879 (0061670871)
Publish date: October 4th 2011
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages no: 358
Edition language: English
I was just notified that I won this book in a First Reads Giveaway. Update 10/17: I've received the book and will be reading it next. I will probably have a review up by the end of the week at latest. Update Oct. 28:As you can see it took me far longer than expected to get to this point, on page 265...
Won Falling Together: A Novel from Goodreads First Reads. I will get to reading it soon. (:
It wasn't bad, it was mediocre to me, though. I liked the idea of Pen, Will and Cat, and liked each of them as characters. But the book was too ramble-y for my liking, it just seemed to go on and on instead of getting to the point. All in all, it was a cute story, though.
This book took a while to get going for me, but I am so glad I finished. After it got going, I really liked the flow of it and I really enjoyed almost every character.
I'm not entirely sure why I decided I wanted to read this book - I was fairly lukewarm on Love Walked In, which I felt to be a cutesy story with no real depth and mediocre prose that was trying too hard. I just really wanted a quick, easy read and this is what I ended up with. Pen, Cat, and Will me...