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When you read this : a novel
- Title
- When you read this : a novel / Mary Adkins.
- Author
- Adkins, Mary
- Publication
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-1977 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 376 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Iris Massey is gone. But she's left something behind. For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by terminal illness at only thirty-three. Adrift without his friend and colleague, Smith is surprised to discover that in her last six months, Iris created a blog filled with sharp and often funny musings on the end of a life not quite fulfilled. She also made one final request: for Smith to get her posts published as a book. With the help of his charmingly eager, if overbearingly forthright, new intern Carl, Smith tackles the task of fulfilling Iris's last wish. Before he can do so, though, he must get the approval of Iris' big sister Jade, an haute cuisine chef who's been knocked sideways by her loss. Each carrying their own baggage, Smith and Jade end up on a collision course with their own unresolved pasts and with each other. Told in a series of e-mails, blog posts, online therapy submissions, text messages, legal correspondence, home-rental bookings, and other snippets of our virtual lives, When You Read This is a deft, captivating romantic comedy--funny, tragic, surprising, and bittersweet--that candidly reveals how we find new beginnings after loss.
- For four years Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. When Iris is taken by terminal illness at only thirty-three, Smith is surprised to discover that in her last six months she created a blog filled with sharp and often funny musings on the end of a life not quite fulfilled. She also made one final request: for Smith to get her posts published as a book. Before he can do so, though, he must get the approval of Iris' big sister Jade, an haute cuisine chef who's been knocked sideways by her loss. Each carrying their own baggage, Smith and Jade end up on a collision course with their own unresolved pasts and with each other. -- adapted from jacket
- Subject
- Death > Fiction
- Grief > Fiction
- Blogs > Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- FICTION / Women
- Public relations consultants > Fiction
- Women cooks > Fiction
- Sisters > Death > Fiction
- Blogs
- Death
- Grief
- Public relations consultants
- Sisters > Death
- Women cooks
- New York (N.Y.) > Fiction
- New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Epistolary fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1977
- ISBN
- 9780062834676
- 0062834673
- OCLC
- 1083671121
- Author
- Adkins, Mary, author.
- Title
- When you read this : a novel / Mary Adkins.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1977