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Go Gentle |
by Maria Semple |
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Book Summary |
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Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and divorcee, she lives a contented life on New York City's Upper West Side. Having discovered that the secret to happiness is to desire only what you have, she has applied this insight to blissful effect: relishing her teenage daughter, the freedom of being solo, and her job as a moral tutor for the twin boys of an old-money family. She has even assembled a "coven" of like-minded women who live on the same floor in the legendary Ansonia and is making active efforts to grow its membership. Adora's carefully curated life is humming along brilliantly until a chance meeting with a handsome stranger. Soon, her ordered world is upended by black-market art deals, secret rendezvous, and international intrigue . . . and her past, which she has worked so hard to bury, lands like a bomb in her present. Inflamed by unquenchable desire, Adora finds herself a woman wanting more, and she will risk everything to get it. Adora Hazzard's journey of self-discovery will grip you from the start. Romantic, hilarious, intelligent, and bursting with the stuff of life, Go Gentle is a thrilling story of one woman's mid-life transformation, cementing Maria Semple as one of today's most exciting contemporary writers. From the Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons | April 14, 2026 | 378 Pages | ISBN 979-8217176656 |
    
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