- Fiction, family life, general, Sisters, fiction, Cincinnati (ohio), fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary
Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help -- and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray.
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Classical in form, contemporary, warm and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Curtis Sittenfeld, Jane Austen
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 492
- Publisher
- Random House, Incorporated
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780399589522
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