Anna Montague

Gebundenes Buch

How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?

Beschreibung

"For fans of Less comes a wry, moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip. Most days, Magda is fine. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits, and her longtime colleagues Boomer and Theo, whose playful bickering she mediates. She successfully avoids all discussion of her upcoming 70th birthday and has even brokered a tentative truce with her late best friend Sara's widower, Fred. Magda has her routines. She has other people's lives to fix. She's fine. But when Fred gifts her Sara's journal, she discovers plans for the road trip they always meant to take scribbled inside. And when Fred foists Sara's urn on Magda for the summer, there seems no choice but to go, lugging Sara along for the ride. Magda just wants closure, but the trip has the potential to shake up her careful routines, and the longing she locked away years ago. Because sometimes getting away from it all makes us confront the things we refuse to face. A hilarious and touching meditation on loss, aging, and the boundless power of female friendship, HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL, MAGDA EKLUND? shows how love endures past death, and how it's never too late to start your next journey"--

Autor

Anna Montague is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? is her first novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780063353640
• ISBN-10: 0063353644
• Artikelnr.: 69233442

Rezensionen

"This sparkling debut sends a 70-year-old therapist on a cross-country road trip with the ashes of her best friend. As she revisits the choices she's made and the people she's cared for, Magda's path through grief leads to wonder." - People

"Beautiful, beguiling, and slightly bonkers. . . . Montague is such a gifted, sensitive, and big-hearted writer." - Ann Levin, Associated Press

"A thoughtful and affecting story about wayward love, regret and missed opportunity. . . Slow down, and enjoy the ride." - Minnesota Star Tribune

"[An] affecting novel." - Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal

"[A] must read .

. . [in How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?] Magda sets off on the cross-country journey, meeting a various cast of characters on the way who will challenge her long held perceptions about identity, sexuality, love, family, and friendship." - Town & Country

"The perfect blend of bitter and sweet, this debut belongs in every fall tote and every brunch gabfest." - Oprah Daily

"Tender but assured . . . . This book will be popular in public libraries. The characters are crisply written and engaging; hand to readers who enjoyed Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman." - Library Journal (starred review)

"Humor and bemusement at human foibles characterize the narrative but never detract from the seriousness of Magda's delayed search for happiness and comfort in her sexual identity. The hard lessons and gifts acquired through loss are illustrated here in the most sensitive way." - Kirkus Reviews

"Delightful. . . . This earnest road novel has plenty of appeal." - Publishers Weekly

"Anna Montague explores friendship, aging, grief, regret and love with both creative and contemplative depth in her noteworthy debut." - BookPage

"An enchanting story of self-discovery, friendship, and resilience." - Debutiful

"Montague's debut novel imparts an affecting journey into the tricky bonds of grief and aging alongside the rewards of self-discovery." - Booklist

"Did I cry several times during this book? Yes. Do I want to recommend it to every woman I know? Yes. . . . Surprisingly funny and uplifting." - Mara Lynn Luther, Ravalli Republic

"How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? is a noteworthy debut about looking back while moving forward. Friendship, love, regret, repression, grief, yearning, aging and new beginnings-Montague explores each of these themes with both creative and contemplative depth." - BookPage

"At once tender and hilarious, How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? is a beautifully written and moving novel of loss and new beginnings." - Jonas Jonasson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

"A road trip novel with a tremendous amount of heart - I ached along with the characters, rooted for them, wished them all the best. Truly a novel that asks you to consider the winding, secret path to love that sits lodged in every person's breast. Anna Montague has written something bright and lovely here, a novel that is above all quietly beautiful." - Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth and Mostly Dead Things

"I love therapy and books about therapists, so this warm and witty debut novel won me completely. I loved Magda Eklund's journey of grief and wonderment." - Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters and Lovers and Liars

"My God, where has Magda Eklund been all my life? In this assured, hilarious, and surprisingly tender debut, Anna Montague shows how the unexpected journeys we go on to find ourselves can happen at any age. It's an exploration of identity and queerness, family and grief, all packed into one rollicking road trip. Populated by a cast of wholly unforgettable characters, How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? is the best kind of novel-one that leaves you loving the people around you a little bit more, and craving your next adventure." - Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding