| International Standard Book Number |
9781668089491 ebook
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668089477 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668089475 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668089484 paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668089483 paperback
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| Personal Name |
Fallon, Rebecca, author.
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| Title Statement |
Family drama : a novel / Rebecca Fallon.
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| Edition Statement |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
310 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"It's 1997, and snow is blanketing a New England beach. Two befuddled seven-year-olds watch as their mother's body is tipped overboard a crumbling boat. A Viking funeral, followed by a raucous wake. A send-off fit for soap opera star: Susan Bliss. Fifteen years earlier, Susan is a blazing, beautiful young woman, passionate about her art. It's impossible not to fall in love with her, and so Alcott, a practical professor, does -- hopelessly. And so begins the love story of Susan's two-paneled life: an unconventional, jetlag-filled arrangement that takes her back and forth between her life in New England as a wife and mother to young twins to the bright lights of Los Angeles, where she becomes the beloved star of a daytime soap. In the present, Susan's twins grow up in the shadow of her all-consuming absence. Sebastian, a sensitive artist, cleaves to her memory, fascinated with the artifacts of her starry past -- old script notes, photographs, tabloid gossip columns -- while Viola, resentful of her mother's torn allegiances, distances herself from the memories of a mother too caught up in her silly dreams to be present for her children. But when Viola runs into her mother's old friend and co-star Orson Grey -- now a renowned Hollywood star -- she finds herself falling deeply in love with him and begins to put together the pieces of a mother she never really knew. Sharp, assured and beautifully written, Family Drama is a story told in double-helix, and the intertwined timelines are heart-healing and breaking in equal measure. It's a novel about love, grief, motherhood, and the different versions of ourselves we share with the world and with each other. It speaks to that ever-present truth: the things we want may not be the things we need"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Artists Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Twins Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mothers Death Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Television actors and actresses Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New England Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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