Calling Invisible Women is a delightfully funny novel packing a clever punch, from the author of the New York Times bestselling Julie and Romeo
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“I saw a magazine cover that stated, ‘SEX, BEAUTY, HEALTH AT 30, 40, 50.’ It flew all over me. I had all those things and more, and I was 60.”
“Now that’s old news,” says Jeanne Ray, bestselling author of Julie and Romeo and Calling Invisible Women. “But then I was shocked and angry. Angry enough to write a novel about attractive, passionate people who fall in love over sixty.
I had read Romeo and Juliet somewhere along the way, and I read it again. It seemed to me to be the perfect plot for a story about two older people who fall in love despite a history of family hatred and the flack they have to endure from former spouses, parents, children, and grandchildren.”
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“One day I woke up and the reality dawned on me that, good God, I’m living with a rooster; how did this happen to me?” writes Brian McGrory, author of Buddy. “I knew how it happened. I fell for a woman unlike anyone I had ever met. She lived in the suburbs, while I had spent my adult life in the city. She had two daughters. The older of those daughters incubated eggs at an elementary school science fair, and from one of those eggs came a little chick they called Buddy. The chick grew up watching television in their laps and sleeping in a little cage in the living room . . . . When Pam and I bought a house and we all moved in together, the rooster came with the whole package deal.”
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Fans of the bestselling novel Julie and Romeo and anyone looking for a delightfully funny novel with a clever punch: add Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray to your TBR list! Jeanne Ray satirizes the ups and down of family and friendship in middle age with great wit and charm. Her strong, funny, smart female characters will keep you laughing and turning the pages. A perfect way to ease into your summer reading!
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Nothing Happens Until It Happens to You is a weird, wonderful journey of self-discovery that proves there’s life after the pink slip after all. With his job search going nowhere amid the wreckage of the American economy, Jeffrey has no choice but to push beyond his comfort zone. He takes on a string of ridiculous odd jobs for a guy known as “enterprising dude” that include dressing up as the Statue of Liberty and breeding fish in a tub of mud. But as Jeffrey stumbles from one comic catastrophe to another, he realizes that in opening up to the world, he no longer wants to go back to his safe, sheltered corner.
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