How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
For fans ofLess and Remarkably Bright Creaturescomes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip
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Erscheint am 22.10.2024
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For fans ofLess and Remarkably Bright Creaturescomes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road tripMost days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates. Shes mourning the recent loss of her best friend, Sara, but has brokered a tentative truce with Saras prickly widower as she helps him sort through the last of Saras possessions. Shesfine.
But in going through Saras old journal, Magda discovers her friends last directive: plans for a road trip they would take together in celebration of Magdas upcoming seventieth birthday. So, with Saras urn in tow, Magda decides to hit the road, crossing the country andencountering a cast of memorable charactersincluding her sister, from whom shes been keeping secrets. Along the way she stumbles upon a jazz funeral in New Orleans and a hilarious womens retreat meant to unleash ones divine feminine energy in Texas, and meets a woman who challenges her conceptions of herselfand the hidden truths about her friendship with Sara.
As the trip shakes up her careful routines, Magda finally faces longings she locked away years ago and confronts questions about her sexuality and identity she thought she had long put to rest. And as she soon learns, its never too late to start your next journey.
Autoren-Porträt von Anna Montague
Anna Montague is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? is her first novel.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Anna Montague
- 2024, 320 Seiten, Maße: 15,2 x 22,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Ecco
- ISBN-10: 0063417294
- ISBN-13: 9780063417298
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.10.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"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
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