This Is Not About Us
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This Is Not About Us
Narrado por:
Kimberly Farr
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Narrado por:
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Kimberly Farr
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Allegra Goodman
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Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubinstein family, it could go either way.
When their beloved sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into a decade of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives—divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals—their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible.
With This Is Not About Us, master storyteller Allegra Goodman—whose prior collection was heralded as “one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life” (The Boston Globe)—returns to the form and subject that endeared her to legions of readers. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This Is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters—a big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations.
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Praise for the work of Allegra Goodman
“Full of wit and spark . . . Irresistible and arresting.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Goodman’s nimble language, usually displayed in her characters’ sharp readings of one another, is one of the great pleasures of her writing. The other is her ability to integrate serious metaphysical questions into her entertaining comedies of manners.”—Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air
“I can't think of anyone else who manages that precarious tone so well, balanced with Zenlike tranquillity between genuine mirth and heartfelt despair. She describes modern life . . . without a drop of bitterness. . . . Goodman is a fantastically fluid writer, and yet for all her skill, she’s a humble, transparent one who stays out of the way, never drawing attention to her style or cleverness.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“Every character . . . is endowed by their creator with the fullest complements of flaws, tics, vices, strengths, virtues and moments of nobility. . . . Goodman presides over her universe with a light and sometimes funny touch.”—Geraldine Brooks, The Washington Post
“Like a modern-day Jane Austen, Goodman is a splendid observer of personalities, their interactions and hidden doubts. Her special gift is examining human nature, its weaknesses and its strengths, through a narrow lens.”—USA Today
“These characters and the situations they find themselves in are so authentic and familiar, we respond to them as though they are family. They get under our skin, make us roll our eyes, get us snorting with laughter and recognition.”—The Boston Globe
“Allegra Goodman is brilliant, funny, knowing, alive: a marvel.”—Cynthia Ozick
“Full of wit and spark . . . Irresistible and arresting.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Goodman’s nimble language, usually displayed in her characters’ sharp readings of one another, is one of the great pleasures of her writing. The other is her ability to integrate serious metaphysical questions into her entertaining comedies of manners.”—Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air
“I can't think of anyone else who manages that precarious tone so well, balanced with Zenlike tranquillity between genuine mirth and heartfelt despair. She describes modern life . . . without a drop of bitterness. . . . Goodman is a fantastically fluid writer, and yet for all her skill, she’s a humble, transparent one who stays out of the way, never drawing attention to her style or cleverness.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“Every character . . . is endowed by their creator with the fullest complements of flaws, tics, vices, strengths, virtues and moments of nobility. . . . Goodman presides over her universe with a light and sometimes funny touch.”—Geraldine Brooks, The Washington Post
“Like a modern-day Jane Austen, Goodman is a splendid observer of personalities, their interactions and hidden doubts. Her special gift is examining human nature, its weaknesses and its strengths, through a narrow lens.”—USA Today
“These characters and the situations they find themselves in are so authentic and familiar, we respond to them as though they are family. They get under our skin, make us roll our eyes, get us snorting with laughter and recognition.”—The Boston Globe
“Allegra Goodman is brilliant, funny, knowing, alive: a marvel.”—Cynthia Ozick
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