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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Sandwich is joy in book form. I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life.”—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake
“If you like my novels, you will love love love this . . . . I stand in awe, it’s just perfect.”—Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Swan Song
“A total delight.”—Kate Christensen
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family summer vacation full of secrets, lunch, and learning to let go.
For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, sunny days, great meals, and messes of all kinds: emotional, marital, and—thanks to the cottage’s ancient plumbing—septic too.
This year’s vacation, with Rocky sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, promises to be just as delightful as summers past—except, perhaps, for Rocky’s hormonal bouts of rage and melancholy. (Hello, menopause!) Her body is changing—her life is, too. And then a chain of events sends Rocky into the past, reliving both the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers.
It’s one precious week: everything is in balance; everything is in flux. And when Rocky comes face to face with her family’s history and future, she is forced to accept that she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
ASIN : B0CJ9TR6JN
Editore : Harper (18 giugno 2024)
Lingua : Inglese
Dimensioni file : 4345 KB
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Screen Reader : Supportato
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Memo : Su Kindle Scribe
Lunghezza stampa : 236 pagine
Numeri di pagina fonte ISBN : 0063345161
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I want to read everything she writes. She gets us. There is a nuance to these characters, a depth of emotion so unbelievably real, you can see yourself, youâll nod your head, laugh along, feel the warmth and intimacy as if you’re a member of the family. A mother looking longingly at her grown children, still hanging on their every word, trying to speak their slang, she wants to hug them until they beg to be let go or when she knows sheâs annoying them so much yet she canât stop herself and being smack in the middle of the ridiculously unfair mind and body-altering menopausal symptoms, she canât help but look back on events that altered her, reflect on her marriage, and other relationships right under her nose, and wonder.It’s Rockyâs favorite week of the year. She loves every minute of these precious days she gets to spend with her husband, son, daughter, and elderly parents in their tiny rental cottage on Cape Cod. The one theyâve been coming back to year after year. Easygoing Nick, Jamie, who loves to cook, brought his sweet and adoring girlfriend Maya, whom the family loves, chatty, opinionated Willa cringes when Rocky makes inappropriate comments, asks invasive questions but loves her, nonetheless. Secrets are revealed that change the trajectory of how Rocky looks at the past and thinks about the future. Itâs board games, conversations with their cat, lazy days at the beach, counting the minutes until they can get to the clam shack.Just wait for the custom sandwich orders. While they give the book its title, a sandwich here is a metaphor for a place in time, which Rocky marks by telling us how old her kids were at key moments, rather than how old she was. Holding on to her kids as babies, when they depended on her, now the letting go, her nest is empty, a new phase has begun, menopause has kicked in, her parents are aging. Her time was not her own though every moment with her precious family brings her joy, she needs to process what sheâs going through. Reminiscent of Nora Ephron, who used the planning, preparation and enjoyment of food to show pleasure and love, Newman adeptly brings us to the table with exquisite yet simple summer meals of lobster, corn on the cob, tomato salad, and whatâs in between those made-to-order sandwiches. Now, thatâs love. And drama.
I just adore Catherine Newman’s writing. I even end up thinking in her voice, narrating my daily life to myself as if it’s one of her books, because her prose is just so natural and lovely.This, her second novel, is even better than her first. It centres around one family’s week-long holiday in Cape Cod, with the menopausal protagonist Rachel (also known as Rocky) firmly ‘sandwiched’ between her ageing parents and her young adult children. It’s a simple yet powerful exploration of family, parenthood, marriage, love, loss, and the whole fleeting yet blinding beauty of life.There are many quotes that have stuck with me, but this one sums up the book: ‘Life is a seesaw, and I am standing dead center, still and balanced: living kids on one side, living parents on the other. Nicky here with me at the fulcrum. Don’t move a muscle, I think. But I will, of course. You have to.’ What an achingly bittersweet paragraph.This book also made me laugh a surprising amount. Some of the characters are very funny, and the banter between the cast made me want to climb inside their cottage with them to join in their holiday. They will all stay with me for a long time.’Sandwich’ will definitely be in my top reads of 2024. My only criticism is that it’s quite short and I didn’t want it to end so soon.
Within the first three chapters I had burst into tears and roared with laughter.The evocative cape and the time switching that captured how precious and fragile it all is.
This is an easy summer read, and it’s quick and not too demanding of the reader. It’s chick-lit, and I mean that in a positive descriptive way. The title “Sandwich” has a double meaning, it’s referring to the town on the north shore of Cape Cod and it’s also referring to the narrator’s generational place in her family, “sandwiched” between her parents and her almost-adult children. The family has a long history of week-long summer rentals on the Cape, and there is meaning in those vacations. There are funny, tender moments, and the reader will experience many flashes of recognition. Families tend to have a lot in common, and the reader will recognize some of herself in the story.
I was really excited to get this book after so many good reviews, but itâs horrendous. The writing is jumbled and at times, rambling and incoherent. The characters are barely developed, and at best Iâd describe them as annoying. It feels like the author just threw thought diarrhea out onto page after page, just to slap together a book and call it done. Itâs incredibly painful to read, there are better fun summer reads out there. This is the worse book Iâve read this year, possibly ever.