We All Want Impossible Things: A Novel
A Best in Fiction Book for 2023
"Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and unflinching compassion. The way she finds the extraordinary in the everyday is nothing short of poetry. She's a writer's writer--and a human's human."--New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center
"A riotously funny and fiercely loyal love l...show more
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This book was nothing I expected and get everything I needed. It spoke of sitting with someone who is dying and doing it in a way that brings truth and reality to the situation. It brought light to the ways in which we all deal with loss - whatever that loss may look like - and also how we begin to evolve and heal after the literal loss takes place.
All over the place. Why would the wife of a hedge fund manager and mother of a 7-year-old agree to leave them behind to hang out with a childhood friend in a far-away town for hospice care? It was such an unrealistic basis for the novel. The friend then hooks up with the hospice physician, the substitute teacher from her daughter’s school, the dying friend’s brother…it’s a ridiculous and indulgent waste of the author’s time. Nothing rings true in...read more
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