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Good Company: A Read with Jenna Pick
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
"Plumbs the depths of marriage, motherhood and friendship with warmth and wit. I devoured it in one gulp!" -Maria Semple
A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship from Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Nest
Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband's wedding ring-the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five.
Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian's small theater company-Good Company-afloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now?
With Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's signature tenderness, humor, and insight, Good Company tells a bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us.
A Most Anticipated Book From: OprahMag.com * Refinery29 * Houston Chronicle * The Millions * Elle * Buzzfeed
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
"Plumbs the depths of marriage, motherhood and friendship with warmth and wit. I devoured it in one gulp!" -Maria Semple
A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship from Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Nest
Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband's wedding ring-the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five.
Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian's small theater company-Good Company-afloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now?
With Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's signature tenderness, humor, and insight, Good Company tells a bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us.
A Most Anticipated Book From: OprahMag.com * Refinery29 * Houston Chronicle * The Millions * Elle * Buzzfeed
Editorial Reviews
"[T]errific wit and inventiveness…Now that's entertainment." - Wall Street Journal
"Sweeney's effectiveness as a novelist stems from her protean sympathy, her ability to move among these characters and capture each one's feelings without judgment. As we see some of the same events from various points of view, we don't learn who was right - who could ever be right, after all? - but we get a poignant, sometimes comic sense of the way we each experience the same events, the same decisions, the same mistakes. In Sweeney's hands, that's not a recipe for endless conflict, but a road to understanding and - maybe - forgiveness." - Washington Post
"Sweeney's warm, witty novel plumbs the depths of two marriages. Secrets and resentments abound, but loyalty and abiding affection carry this bicoastal tale of actors finding their way in real life." - New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice
"In Good Company, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's follow-up to her best-selling ‘The Nest,' she deftly and empathetically charts the nuanced rhythms of friendships, particularly those that, under certain circumstances, take on the role of a close-knit family circle." - Boston Globe
"The vivacious and tender second novel by the bestselling author of The Nest is an absorbing, wise, and tender tale of a marriage in mid-life." - O, the Oprah Magazine
"Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's Good Company is a smart and nuanced examination of the growing pains of long relationships, sure to spark great conversations about marriage, friendship, and parenthood." - Real Simple
"This novel considers how much the bonds of friendship and marriage can withstand in a tale that has as much heart as it does intrigue." - Good Housekeeping
"You don't need to be a fan of Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's bestseller The Nest to appreciate the high stakes, sly class commentary, and masterful storytelling of Good Company-but it wouldn't hurt. - Town & Country
"[T]ender and absorbing tale….Fille...
"Sweeney's effectiveness as a novelist stems from her protean sympathy, her ability to move among these characters and capture each one's feelings without judgment. As we see some of the same events from various points of view, we don't learn who was right - who could ever be right, after all? - but we get a poignant, sometimes comic sense of the way we each experience the same events, the same decisions, the same mistakes. In Sweeney's hands, that's not a recipe for endless conflict, but a road to understanding and - maybe - forgiveness." - Washington Post
"Sweeney's warm, witty novel plumbs the depths of two marriages. Secrets and resentments abound, but loyalty and abiding affection carry this bicoastal tale of actors finding their way in real life." - New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice
"In Good Company, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's follow-up to her best-selling ‘The Nest,' she deftly and empathetically charts the nuanced rhythms of friendships, particularly those that, under certain circumstances, take on the role of a close-knit family circle." - Boston Globe
"The vivacious and tender second novel by the bestselling author of The Nest is an absorbing, wise, and tender tale of a marriage in mid-life." - O, the Oprah Magazine
"Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's Good Company is a smart and nuanced examination of the growing pains of long relationships, sure to spark great conversations about marriage, friendship, and parenthood." - Real Simple
"This novel considers how much the bonds of friendship and marriage can withstand in a tale that has as much heart as it does intrigue." - Good Housekeeping
"You don't need to be a fan of Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's bestseller The Nest to appreciate the high stakes, sly class commentary, and masterful storytelling of Good Company-but it wouldn't hurt. - Town & Country
"[T]ender and absorbing tale….Fille...
Readers Top Reviews
Alaskagal49Karen
You know, when this book populated in my Amazon feed, I immediately thought: Oh, goody, goody! A novel involving family angst, something out of my normal reading genre (police procedural, horror, thriller, suspense, nominated award winners)! Yay! I must confess that I am a word nerd. I am a grammar Nazi. I have been, and always have been, a prolific reader. Unfortunately, I am now homebound (kinda sounds like I'm out in the highlands merrily frolicking with my little Labrador and scamp of a kitten; but the reality is not that sexy), and while I've always been a huge reader, now that I'm at home, my focus is more and more on literary items then not; I usually read at least two books daily, depending of course on their length and breadth. I did NOT expect this book to be in the same family angst genre, say of, oh I don't know ... maybe Song of Solomon, Shuggie Bain, Portnoy's Complaint, Hill House, or The Nickel Boys. And I was right. I was HOPING that this book might be in the same family angst genre, say of, oh, I don't know ... maybe Ordinary People, A Thousand Acres, or even anything written by Ms. Liane Moriarty. And I was wrong. I inherently know that a published, physical book may deviate in form from its electronic compadre, but that's no excuse for us, those with an electronic reader, to suffer through poor editing. The author crows loudly and profusely, and thanks her not one, but two (two!), editors for their assistance with this book. I'm sorry. My eyes are so far rolled back in my head, I fear I may take a header. One moment, please. On page six (page six!) I found this most egregious error - kinda similar to what Darryl Strawberry would make - and once I read it, I couldn't get past it: " ...decorating a nursery became a reflection of the good taste and intellectual rigor of the entire family," Really editor folk? Is the intellectual capacity of the family that trite and that staid? No, it's not. Methinks you meant rigueur. And there were other numerous errors that followed after this ... Speaking of the characters, in a nutshell: yuck. I would not want to meet anyone of these self-absorbed, narcissistic, nasty-pants characters in a coffee shop, let alone a "green room". Flora finds out that her husband cheated on her many, many moons ago. And she finds her best friend knew about his cheating, but never said a word. And now, 15+ years later, she's in a dither. I wanted to slap her. Oh, and her daughter, too. Her daughter is so coddled and so narcissistic that - get this - she really doesn't like her boyfriend, but still goes to spend a summer in Spain with him and his family - it's free; they're paying; why not? But then (but then!) he " dumps" her at the airport before her flight home to JFK, and she is bereft! Astounded! Outraged! However upon seeing her mother at...
Kindle Alaskagal
The difficulties of couples and friends intertwined over decades tied together by a summer theater company . Enjoyable read , liked the author
