NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Named One
of the Best Beach Reads of the Year by Parade, O: The Oprah Magazine,
and Good Housekeeping “The exuberant activity aboard the Splendido
Marveloso is no match for the fireworks set off as the lies explode.
Full of wicked humor and delicious destination details.”—People
(Book of the Week) NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE
When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the
Become a Jetsetter contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged
children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan
venture capitalist who can’t seem to find a partner; and Regan, a
harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a
Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns
for the years when her children were young, when she was a single
mother who meant everything to them. When she wins the contest, the
family packs their baggage—both literal and figurative—and spends
ten days traveling from sun-drenched Athens through glorious Rome to
tapas-laden Barcelona on an over-the-top cruise ship, the Splendido
Marveloso. As lovers new and old join the adventure, long-buried
secrets are revealed and old wounds are reopened, forcing the Perkins
family to confront the forces that drove them apart and the defining
choices of their lives. Can four lost adults find the peace they’ve
been seeking by reconciling their childhood aches and coming back
together? In the vein of The Nest and The Vacationers, The Jetsetters
is a delicious and intelligent novel about the courage it takes to
reveal our true selves, the pleasures and perils of family, and how we
navigate the seas of adulthood.
Les mer
A Novel
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780399181900
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Random House Digital Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter