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Today Will be Different
Maria Semple
Review by Priscilla Comen
Today Will be Different
Maria Semple
Review by Priscilla Comen
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple is a whimsical/serious read about Eleanor Flood and her five year old, Timby, who fakes stomach aches in order to stay home with his mom. Timby likes to dress in women’s clothes and Eleanor looks the other way. She forgets dates and phone numbers and calls everything “amazing.” Her husband, Joe, is a famous hand surgeon who takes a week off without telling Eleanor. A former colleague of hers comes to see her and we’re thrown into New Orleans with Bucky, who’s more than handsome and over six feet tall. Eleanor’s sister Ivy meets and captivates Bucky.
They marry and live in New Orleans in the fancy Garden District. Author Semple takes the reader into places of interest in New Orleans such as Preservation Hall and St. Louis Cathedral where Ivy and Bucky’s baby boy is baptised. Bucky tells Eleanor she is not to be alone with his son, J.T., she must stay at a hotel when she visits. He throws her album of the “Flood Girls” at her feet. This is her memory collection. Author Semple lives in Seattle and places Eleanor and Joe there after they leave New Orleans. Joe takes Eleanor to a football game where he puts a splint on an injured player’s hand so he can keep playing. When the player decides to play without the splint, Joe goes ballistic and punches the coach who okayed the decision.
Will today be different? Will Eleanor reconcile with Joe and with her sister’s husband? The humor is subtle but serious too. Find this on the new fiction shelf of your community library.
They marry and live in New Orleans in the fancy Garden District. Author Semple takes the reader into places of interest in New Orleans such as Preservation Hall and St. Louis Cathedral where Ivy and Bucky’s baby boy is baptised. Bucky tells Eleanor she is not to be alone with his son, J.T., she must stay at a hotel when she visits. He throws her album of the “Flood Girls” at her feet. This is her memory collection. Author Semple lives in Seattle and places Eleanor and Joe there after they leave New Orleans. Joe takes Eleanor to a football game where he puts a splint on an injured player’s hand so he can keep playing. When the player decides to play without the splint, Joe goes ballistic and punches the coach who okayed the decision.
Will today be different? Will Eleanor reconcile with Joe and with her sister’s husband? The humor is subtle but serious too. Find this on the new fiction shelf of your community library.