The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus: A Novel about Marriage, Motherhood, and Mayhem

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Price
$13.99  $13.01
Publisher
HarperTorch
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Pages
432
Dimensions
5.33 X 8.02 X 1.03 inches | 0.69 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780062024671

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About the Author
Sonya Sones has written five YA novels-in-verse: To Be Perfectly Honest (A Novel Based on an Untrue Story), Stop Pretending, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies, What My Mother Doesn't Know, and its companion, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know. Her books have received many honors, including a Christopher Award, the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize nomination. But the coolest honor she ever got was when What My Mother Doesn't Know made it onto the American Library Association's list of the Top 100 Most Banned Books of the Decade (to see why, see p.46). She lives near the beach in southern California, and only tells the occasional fib. Visit her at SonyaSones.com or follow @SonyaSones on Twitter.
Reviews

"[An] entertaining novel-in-verse that will have readers clamoring for more. Sones, a beloved and wildly popular YA novelist, brings poetry to life for readers, especially parents of teens and those coping with elder care, in this cleverly versified, insightful laughter-and-tears novel." -- Booklist

"Somewhere between Nora Ephron and Jennifer Weiner, Sones recounts the little ouches of aging with a perfect blend of wit and tenderness. . . . This is what chick lit should want to be when it grows up--wise, funny, and blunt." -- Library Journal

"Wallpaper a room with the pages of The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus. It will be your favorite place. The room you come back to again and again, year after year." -- Ilene Beckerman, author of Love, Loss, and What I Wore

"Funny, fresh, and heartbreakingly poignant, this book had me laughing and crying at the same time. Thank you, Sonya Sones, for finally saying what so many of us have been thinking for so long." -- Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries series and Insatiable

"Every page of Sonya Sones's novel-in-verse is brimming with wit, warmth, and wisdom. You'll want to share this relatable and revelatory story about growing old 'disgracefully' with every mother and daughter you know." -- Megan McCafferty, author of the Jessica Darling series

"An achingly honest, brilliantly crafted examination of midlife. An absolute joy to read." -- Tish Cohen, author of The Truth About Delilah Blue and Inside Out Girl

"An elderly, ailing parent. A child about the fly the nest. Menopause. Tensions in a longtime marriage. . . . These are familiar midlife issues, but poetry's sharp focus enables Sones to keep them fresh . . . [as she] expertly juggles humor and pathos. . . . Marvelous." -- AARP

"If you told me I'd laugh and cry in the nail salon over a novel in VERSE . . . I'd have said that you were mad. Then I read The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus and I saw the light and fell under Sonya Sones' spell." -- Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean