* InstantNew York TimesBestseller *
A brilliant novel from the author ofWhere'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.
Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action-life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office-but not Eleanor-that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret.
TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.
Maria Semple is the author of
This One Is Mineand
Where'd You Go, Bernadette,which has been translated into eighteen languages. She lives in Seattle.
Named a Notable Book of 2016 by theWashington Post,one of Amazon's Top 100 Books of the Year, one ofNew York Times Book Review's100 Notable Books, one ofThe Guardian'sBest Books of 2016, one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, a Must-Read Book of 2016 byPopSugar, one ofEW's 20 Best Books of 2016, one ofGlamour'sTop Ten Books of the Year, and one ofKirkus Reviews' Best 100 Fiction Books of 2016 Another tour de force.... The success of this poetic, seriously funny and brainy dream of a novel -- 'Mrs. Dalloway Takes Laughing Gas,' perhaps -- has to do with Maria Semple's l3œ