Losing Clementine: A Novel
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"[Losing Clementine] is poignant and insightful and also surprisingly funny, thanks to its nasty, charming narrator." —Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl
A smart, sharp and moving debut—by turns hilarious and tragic— Losing Clementine follows a famous artist as she gives herself one month to get her messy affairs in order before turning out the lights on her own life.
World-renowned artist and sharp-tongued wit Clementine Pritchard is done. Years of therapy and medication have gifted her with little more than sweaty palms and gastric upset. Now, after flushing away a cabinet full of prescriptions, she gives herself thirty days to tie up loose ends (finish one final painting, make nice with her ex-husband, find a home for her cat) and enjoy one last month of art-world parties, road trips and outrageous acts.
What Clementine doesn't expect is to uncover secrets surrounding the decades-old tragedy that befell her mother and sister. With the date of her carefully planned demise fast approaching, can she dive back into the messy business of family and life? Does she want to?
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I thought this was a great book. It is about a smart, funny, artist who has given herself 30 days to live. I thought at first she would have an incurable disease- and she does but not something like cancer. I was surprised that she decided to end it after hearing what disease she does have- is it a secret? I'm just going to tell you, she's manic depressive and I thought it was something that was liveable with but then I heard her back story- loved this! and I realized why she has decided to flush her pills down the toilet and end it all in 30 days. This isn't a kids book by any means- but if you were going to die in 30 days would you want to keep your life PG? I wouldn't- I'd be cursing, loving, and doing whatever I wanted to whenever I wanted to because what consequences will I have to deal with when in 30 days I'm dead?
I loved all the characters in this book and there were so many twists and turns! She decides to find her father who abandoned her family when she was in elementary school and when she tracks him down you learn something that made me go *gasp!*
And the ending! Let me just tell you, the ending was SO cool. When I first read it I was a little.... disappointed? Not disappointed but I didn't expect it at all! I let the ending settle in my mind for a day or two and now I love what happened! :D
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