"Waiting On" Wednesday: The Vacationers

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted here, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

The Vacationers
By Emma Straub

Publication Date: May 29

From Amazon:

For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their 35th wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated.


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"Waiting On" Wednesday: Delicious

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted here, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Delicious
By Ruth Reichl

Publication Date: May 6

From Amazon:

In her New York Times bestselling memoirs Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples, Ruth Reichl has brilliantly illuminated how food defines us. Now she celebrates this theme in her dazzling fiction debut—a novel of sisters, family ties, and a young woman who must find the courage to let go of the past in order to embrace her own true gifts.


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"Waiting On" Wednesday: Cutting Teeth

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted here, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Cutting Teeth

By Julia Fierro
Publication Date: May 13

From Amazon:

One late-summer weekend, a group of 30-something couples and their children gather at a shabby beach house called “Eden,” but their trip is a far cry from paradise. As the weekend unfolds and conflicts intensify, painful truths surface. Friendships crack. Identities are challenged as the characters begin to doubt the choices they’ve made, comparing the lofty expectations they had for what they’d once imagined as the “prime of their life,” with its day-to-day reality. Their resentment toward each other grows against the chaotic backdrop of young children’s relentless demands, culminating in a climactic scene in which the ultimate rule of the group is broken. Two days together in Eden will change the group forever.

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"Waiting On" Wednesday: Be Safe I Love You

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted here, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Be Safe I Love You
By Cara Hoffman

Publication Date: April 1

From Amazon:

Lauren Clay has just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq in time to spend Christmas with her family. As she reconnects with her old friends, it’s clear to everyone in their rural New York town that something is wrong with Lauren. But her father is so happy to have her home that he ignores the warning signs—her odd behavior and the repeated phone calls from an Army psychologist. Things seem better when Lauren offers to take her younger brother Danny on a trip to visit their mother upstate. Instead, she guides Danny into the glacial woods of Canada on a quest to visit the Jeanne d’Arc basin, the site of an oil field that has become her strange obsession. As they set up camp in an abandoned hunting village, Lauren believes she’s teaching Danny survival skills for the day when she’s no longer able to take care of him. But where does she think she’s going, and what happened to her in Iraq that set her on this path?


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