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Where’d You Go, Maria Semple

November 9, 2016 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

The struggle with enjoying a newer book by an established author, and then going back to their previous works, is your expectations for their debut are high. Halfway through This One is Mine I double checked that this Maria Semple was the same Maria Semple who wrote Where’d You Go, Bernadette. She is. This One is Mine tells the overlapping stories of Violet Parry, her husband David and his sister Sally during a tumultuous time in their lives. David is a multimillionaire record executive and Violet had a successful career […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Maria Semple, this one is mine

Caitlin_D's CBR8 Review No:92 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Maria Semple, this one is mine ·
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