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  Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
  

  by Ayelet Gilbert Waldman

  ISBN 0385515308 (0-385-51530-8)
  Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing

  
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  With wry candor and tender humor, acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.
  
  For Emilia Greenleaf, life is by turns a comedy of errors and an emotional minefield. Yes, shes a Harvard Law grad who married her soul mate. Yes, they live in elegant comfort on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. But with her one-and-only, Jack, came a stepsona know-it-all preschooler named William who has become her number one responsibility every Wednesday afternoon. With William, Emilia encounters a number of impossible pursuitssuch as the pursuit of cab drivers who speed away when they see Williams industrial-strength car seat and the pursuit of lactose-free, strawberry-flavored, patisserie-quality cupcakes, despite the fact that Williams allergy is a figment of his over-protective mothers imagination.
  
  As much as Emilia wants to find common ground with William, she becomes completely preoccupied when she loses her newborn daughter. After this, the sight of any child brings her to tears, and Wednesdays with William are almost impossible. When his unceasing questions turn to the babys death, Emilia is at a total loss. Doesnt anyone understand that self-pity is a full-time job? Ironically, it is only through her blundering attempts to bond with William that she finally heals herself and learns what family really means. [via]

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  • Love and Other Impossible Pursuits: ISBN 0385515308 (0-385-51530-8)
    Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing