Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog. It's a great way to share information about forthcoming books with other readers.
This week's anticipated book:
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: March 18, 2014
Preorder from online and bricks and mortar bookstores
From barnesandnoble.com: Witty
and wonderful, sparkling and sophisticated, this debut romantic comedy
brilliantly tells the story of one very messy, very high-profile
divorce, and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into
handling it.
Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is happy toiling away as a criminal law associate at an old line New England firm where she very much appreciates that most of her clients are behind bars. Everyone at Traynor, Hand knows she abhors face-to-face contact, but one weekend, with all the big partners away, Sophie must handle the intake interview for the daughter of the firm’s most important client. After eighteen years of marriage, Mayflower descendant Mia Meiklejohn Durkheim has just been served divorce papers in a humiliating scene at the popular local restaurant, Golightly’s. She is locked and loaded to fight her eminent and ambitious husband, Dr. Daniel Durkheim, Chief of the Department of Pediatric Oncology, for custody of their ten-year-old daughter Jane—and she also burns to take him down a peg. Sophie warns Mia that she’s never handled a divorce case before, but Mia can’t be put off. As she so disarmingly puts it: It’s her first divorce, too.
Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is happy toiling away as a criminal law associate at an old line New England firm where she very much appreciates that most of her clients are behind bars. Everyone at Traynor, Hand knows she abhors face-to-face contact, but one weekend, with all the big partners away, Sophie must handle the intake interview for the daughter of the firm’s most important client. After eighteen years of marriage, Mayflower descendant Mia Meiklejohn Durkheim has just been served divorce papers in a humiliating scene at the popular local restaurant, Golightly’s. She is locked and loaded to fight her eminent and ambitious husband, Dr. Daniel Durkheim, Chief of the Department of Pediatric Oncology, for custody of their ten-year-old daughter Jane—and she also burns to take him down a peg. Sophie warns Mia that she’s never handled a divorce case before, but Mia can’t be put off. As she so disarmingly puts it: It’s her first divorce, too.
Debut novelist Susan Rieger
doesn’t leave a word out of place in this hilarious and expertly crafted
debut that shines with the power and pleasure of storytelling. Told
through personal correspondence, office memos, emails, articles, and
legal papers, this playful reinvention of the epistolary form races
along with humor and heartache, exploring the complicated family dynamic
that results when marriage fails. For Sophie, the whole affair sparks a
hard look at her own relationships—not only with her parents, but with
colleagues, friends, lovers, and most importantly, herself. Much like Where’d You Go, Bernadette, The Divorce Papers will have you laughing aloud and thanking the literature gods for this incredible, fresh new voice in fiction.
Which book are you waiting for?
Enjoy life with books . . .
Catherine
Waiting on Wednesday: The Divorce Papers was originally published by Catherine for bookclublibrarian.com. This post cannot be republished without attribution.
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