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Vpervye na russkom — epichnaya semeynaya drama v luchshih traditsiyah Elizabet Straut i Enn Petchett, natsionalnyy bestseller, kniga goda po versii The Washington Post, National Public Radio i zhurnala People; eto «mudroe, napolnennoe zhivym yumorom issledovanie braka, materinstva, zhenskoy psihologii» (Bonni Garmus, avtor «Urokov himii»). Posle burnoy yunosti Dzhuliya Eyms kak budto ostepenilas: muzh — uspeshnyy chikagskiy biznesmen, syn — molodoy prepodavatel v kolledzhe, doch okanchivaet shkolu i dumaet, kuda postupat. No sluchaynaya vstrecha v magazine delikatesov so staroy znakomoy, kotoruyu ne videla dvadtsat let i blagodarya kotoroy ee zhizn odnazhdy uzhe chut ne poshla pod otkos, vnov vybivaet Dzhuliyu iz kolei. A tut esche i syn oshelomlyaet ee neozhidannoy novostyu — na torzhestvah po sluchayu shestidesyatiletiya muzha, v podgotovku kotoryh ona vlozhila stolko sil, — i Dzhuliya vynuzhdena serezno zadumatsya, ne peredalsya li ey ot materi demon samorazrusheniya… «V menee opytnyh rukah eta semeynaya drama — tayny! razdory! izmeny! — obernulas by ocherednoy mylnoy operoy, no Kler Lombardo, kak umelyy kartograf chelovecheskogo serdtsa, tonko prorabatyvaet nyuansy i ne boitsya riskovat. Ee Dzhuliya Eyms — dostoynaya naslednitsa Merion Hildenbrandt iz «Perekrestkov» Dzhonatana Franzena» (The New York Times).