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LocationOakland
StatusChecked Out
Call NoF LIT
TitleThe accidental favorite : a novel / Fran Littlewood.
AuthorLittlewood, Fran, author.
Barcode47660111112344
CollectionFiction
Summary"From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite? Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They're well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it's with great anticipation that three generations of Fishers gather at a beautiful glass house in the English countryside for a weeklong celebration of Vivienne's seventieth birthday. But when Patrick's reaction to a freak accident on the first day of the trip inadvertently reveals that he has a favorite daughter, no one is prepared for the shockwaves it sends through the family. Decades-old unresolved sibling rivalries are suddenly unmasked. And be it newly uncovered smoking habits, ancient crushes, or private doubts about life decisions both big and small, no one's secrets are safe. Still-tender wounds are reopened amid an audience of friends, husbands, grandchildren, and even coworkers, and as the family's past is re-written, they find themselves suddenly unmoored. In a lively, poignant examination of memory, sisterhood, and family ties, Fran Littlewood reminds us just why it is that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"-- Provided by publisher.
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LocationStatusBarcodeCall NoCollectionShelf LocCirc Status
OaklandChecked Out47660111112344F LITFictionNew ShelfDue on 7/15/2025

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781250857125 (ebook)
International Standard Book Number 9781250857118 (hardcover)
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 823/.92 23/eng/20241004
Personal Name Littlewood, Fran, author.
Title Statement The accidental favorite : a novel / Fran Littlewood.
Edition Statement First U.S. edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2025.
Physical Description 301 p. hardcover 24 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite? Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They're well-adjusted women with impressive careers, caring partners, exciting hobbies, and sweet children. So it's with great anticipation that three generations of Fishers gather at a beautiful glass house in the English countryside for a weeklong celebration of Vivienne's seventieth birthday. But when Patrick's reaction to a freak accident on the first day of the trip inadvertently reveals that he has a favorite daughter, no one is prepared for the shockwaves it sends through the family. Decades-old unresolved sibling rivalries are suddenly unmasked. And be it newly uncovered smoking habits, ancient crushes, or private doubts about life decisions both big and small, no one's secrets are safe. Still-tender wounds are reopened amid an audience of friends, husbands, grandchildren, and even coworkers, and as the family's past is re-written, they find themselves suddenly unmoored. In a lively, poignant examination of memory, sisterhood, and family ties, Fran Littlewood reminds us just why it is that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Domestic ficton Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Family life, general Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Sibling Rivalry. Fiction
Index Term-Genre/Form Domestic fiction. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft