Gold Jennifer - Polite Calamities A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In a hazy 1960s Rhode Island summer three disparate lives converge and combust in this riveting story of the empowerment women find in friendship solidarity and rage from the author of Halfway to You. Winifred is blunt opinionated and outrageously colorful. In a community that demands domesticity she simply doesn t fit. When her wealthy husband suddenly dies Winifred's fellow society housewives no longer have a reason to play nice. Cast out entirely Winifred throws roaring parties for the clerks and waiters that serve the town finding the connections she's been craving and upsetting the gentle balance of her elite neighborhood in the process. Flailing artist Marie wants to paint over her past before the painful memories consume her. On the brink of making a longtime dream come true her newfound friendship with Winifred might be the key to finally moving forward or her undoing. High - society housewife June weathers a chronic pain that would make other women faint. With her veneer crumbling she has no patience for the free spirit shaking up her community. Filled with a mixture of obsessive hatred and fascination for the outcast June's determined to destroy Winifred and return her life to the way it used to be. When slow - simmering summer secrets and resentments finally reach the boiling point everyone is at risk of being burned. Polite Calamities explores what community really means when societal survival is at stake and what happens when women decide it's time to stop behaving and start living.
Title: Polite Calamities A Novel
Author(s): Gold Jennifer
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Barcode: 9781662521089
Pages: 411 Pages
Publication Date: 7/23/2024
Category: Fiction: Special Features