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From bestselling author Laura Zigman comes a heartfelt novel about two offbeat and newly divorced sisters who move in together as adults??and finally reckon with their childhood
A year after her divorce, Joyce is settling into being single again. She likes her job archiving family photos and videos, and she's developed a secret comforting hobby: trolling the neighborhood social networking site, Small World, for posts that help solve life's easiest problems. When her older sister, Lydia, also divorced, calls to tell her she's moving back east from Los Angeles after almost thirty years away, Joyce invites Lydia to move into her Cambridge apartment. Temporarily. Just until she finds a place of her own.
But their unlikely cohabitation??not helped by annoying new neighbors upstairs??turns out to be the post-divorce rebound relationship Joyce hadn't planned on. Instead of forging the bond she always dreamed of having with Lydia, their relationship frays. And they rarely discuss the loss of their sister, Eleanor, who was significantly disabled and died when she was only ten years old. When new revelations from their family's history come to light, will those secrets further split them apart, or course correct their connection for the future?
Written with wry humor and keen sensitivity, Small World is a powerful novel of sisterhood and hope??a reminder that sometimes you have to look back in order to move… (altro)
It ended up sweet, if predictable. Absent outright abuse, I find adults dwelling on childhood slights pathetic. Most of this novel felt like that. Your parents, though not perfect, likely did the best they could, like everyone else does. ( )
A very unlucky family. So many things go wrong but the 2 remaining sister live together as adults. There was a third voice in the narration - a bit confusing who was the narrator- Joyce or Lydia ( )
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I came to explore the wreck.
—-Adrienne Rich
No one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become.
—-“The Blessing of Memory,” Meditations before Kaddish
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For Sheryl Anne Zigman [April 28, 1958–November 2, 1965] who left home before I even knew she’d been there.
Incipit
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There’s a photo, an old snapshot—black-and-white, with the date going up the border in typewriter font—-1069.
Citazioni
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Years later, when you’re older and have known more people and have seen some of the world, you’ll realize that what you saw those Christmas Days was a happy family, and that the thing missing from yours that you could never name— the language none of you spoke in your country—was joy.
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The trees that framed a small beautiful world where joy transcended grief and where the sounds of children, once alive, now gone, can still be heard.
From bestselling author Laura Zigman comes a heartfelt novel about two offbeat and newly divorced sisters who move in together as adults??and finally reckon with their childhood
A year after her divorce, Joyce is settling into being single again. She likes her job archiving family photos and videos, and she's developed a secret comforting hobby: trolling the neighborhood social networking site, Small World, for posts that help solve life's easiest problems. When her older sister, Lydia, also divorced, calls to tell her she's moving back east from Los Angeles after almost thirty years away, Joyce invites Lydia to move into her Cambridge apartment. Temporarily. Just until she finds a place of her own.
But their unlikely cohabitation??not helped by annoying new neighbors upstairs??turns out to be the post-divorce rebound relationship Joyce hadn't planned on. Instead of forging the bond she always dreamed of having with Lydia, their relationship frays. And they rarely discuss the loss of their sister, Eleanor, who was significantly disabled and died when she was only ten years old. When new revelations from their family's history come to light, will those secrets further split them apart, or course correct their connection for the future?
Written with wry humor and keen sensitivity, Small World is a powerful novel of sisterhood and hope??a reminder that sometimes you have to look back in order to move
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