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The Girls

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The Girls

Meet the four Witkovsky sisters in this â€œfierce, hopefulâ€ novel about growing old, â€œlightened by a wicked sense of humorâ€ (Newsday).

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

Eighty-year-old Jennyâ€”the baby of the familyâ€”has flown down to Miami, Floridaâ€”that gaudy, pastel-hued haven of the elderlyâ€”to look after her two oldest sisters: Eva, still going strong at ninety-five, and Naomi, ninety, who is riddled with cancer but retains her tart tongue and her jet-black head of hair. Then thereâ€™s Flora, an energetic eighty-five, who spends her time dating and making the rounds of the retirement homes with her standup routine.

Their parents are long gone, their three brothers more recently so, but the sisters remain a familyâ€”with all the arguments and rivalries that entails. In a novel the Los Angeles Times hails as â€œquietly affecting,â€ Jenny, Eva, Naomi, and Flora wrestle with aches and pains, wheelchairs and walkers, as well as the questions we all face about independence, loss, and what really matters in the long run.

A former literary editor for theÂ Nation and a New Yorker contributor, Helen Yglesias conjures the unquenchable humor and immense courage of four very different women, and moves us to laughter and tears, in a story Publishers Weekly deems for â€œanyone who is watching people they love grow oldâ€â€”or contemplating the experience.Â

Country	USA
Author	Helen Yglesias
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1st
EISBN	9781453262085
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Delphinium Books
Manufacturer	Delphinium Books
NumberOfPages	192
PublicationDate	2012-05-08
Publisher	Delphinium Books
ReleaseDate	2012-05-08
Studio	Delphinium Books

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