Friends and Strangers: A Read with Jenna Pick Friends and Strangers: A Read with Jenna Pick

Friends and Strangers: A Read with Jenna Pick

A novel

    • 3.9 • 458 Ratings
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK An insightful and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life, from the best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions.

"Once again, Sullivan has shown herself to be one of the wisest and least pretentious chroniclers of modern life."—The Washington Post

Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years in New York City. Alone in the house with her infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night), she feels uneasy, adrift. She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn moms' Facebook group, her "influencer" sister's Instagram feed, and text messages with the best friend she never sees anymore. Enter Sam, a senior at the local women's college, whom Elisabeth hires to babysit. Sam is struggling to decide between the path she's always planned on and a romantic entanglement that threatens her ambition. She's worried about student loan debt and what the future holds. In short order, they grow close. But when Sam finds an unlikely kindred spirit in Elisabeth's father-in-law, the true differences between the women's lives become starkly revealed and a betrayal has devastating consequences.

A masterful exploration of motherhood, power dynamics, and privilege in its many forms, Friends and Strangers reveals how a single year can shape the course of a life.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
June 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
416
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2.7
MB

Customer Reviews

kaykaybean13 ,

A book of a young mother in a new town who relies perhaps too heavily on her college aged nanny

A young mom who moves out of NYC and has stopped working while on maternity leave is struggling to find her footing in a new suburb that’s hours away from her old home. She puts in an ad up at local college and finds a nanny for her son while she’s getting back into part time writing again and soon she begins to form a friendship and strong reliance on her nanny. She crosses her bounds with the girl in the end by making a calculating call to a friend to get her a coveted job interview which would keep her in the city instead of moving to London to live with a boyfriend who’s too old, who has been lying to her about a previous marriage and she believes she’s doing her nanny a favor. It all falls apart in the end.

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