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Days of Awe by Lauren Fox

Days of Awe

by Lauren Fox

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  • Aug 2015, 272 pages
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Only a year ago Isabel Moore was married, was the object of adoration for her ten-year-old daughter, and thought she knew everything about her wild, extravagant, beloved best friend, Josie. But in that one short year her husband moved out and rented his own apartment; her daughter grew into a moody insomniac; and Josie - impulsive, funny, secretive Josie - was killed behind the wheel in a single-car accident. As the relationships that long defined Isabel - wife, mother, daughter, best friend - change before her eyes, Isabel must try to understand who she really is.

Teeming with longing, grief, and occasional moments of wild, unexpected joy, Days of Awe is a daring, dazzling book - a luminous exploration of marriage, motherhood, and the often surprising shape of new love.

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"Starred Review. Read it for the magnetic voice and Fox's ever interesting perspective on work, love, friendship, and parenthood - because, really, what else is there?" - Kirkus

"Raw and darkly humorous at times, Fox's novel is a winner." – Publishers Weekly

"Isabel's world crumbles in the year following the sudden death of her best friend, Josie… But despite the weight of sadness, Isabel is a clever, self-deprecating narrator, and humor lights up her descriptions." - Booklist

"Days of Awe is clever, funny, and emotional, the kind of book another writer reads jealously, wishing to have written it. Honest and accurate about female friendship, this is my favorite Lauren Fox book yet." - Jennifer Close, bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses and The Smart One

"Funny, mordant, and heartbreaking, Days of Awe is a marvel. With a deft touch, Lauren Fox manages to swoop from tenderness to absurdity in a single line, pulling her readers through a thicket of emotion without a stumble or a missed turn. I loved this novel." - Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train

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Diane S.

Days of Awe
Isabel Moore, a young woman in her early forties, trying to pick up the piece after her best friend's death, her husbands leaving and her daughters new not very nice attitude towards her. Very appealing characters, very accessible writing. Isabel tends to think things she should say and doesn't, and tends to say things in circumstances she shouldn't. She is so very real, flawed and vulnerable.

Her comments and thoughts, some of which I quoted in my updates, are at times absurdly amusing at other times sadly funny. Many of the lines in this book are brilliant, one wants to keep reading to see what she will say, think or do next. Plus, I really wanted things to work out for her.

This is a book about friendships, marriage, mother and daughter relationships and wanting a happy or at least a start at a happy ever ending. A very quick flowing story about events that could happen to anyone and the ways we sabotage ourselves, even with our best intentions.

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Lauren Fox

Lauren Fox is the author of the novels Still Life with Husband and Friends Like Us. She earned her MFA from the University of Minnesota, and her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Marie Claire, Parenting, Psychology Today, The Rumpus, and Salon. She lives in Milwaukee with her husband and two daughters.

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