CYNTHIA D APRIX SWEENEY

Melody, Jack, Bea und Leo sind Geschwister. Sie sind in ihren Vierzigern, stehen mitten im Leben und sie haben immer gewusst, sie wurden eines Tages erben. Aber was, wenn die Erbschaft ausbleibt? Ein warmherziger, humorvoller und scharfsinniger Roman daruber, wie der Kampf ums Geld Lebensentwurfe und Familien durcheinanderbringen kann.Als Kinder haben sie einander geneckt, als Erwachsene verbindet die Geschwister Melody, Jack, Beatrice und Leo Plumb nur noch eine gemeinsame Erbschaft. Mitten in der Finanzkrise brauchen alle dringend Geld. Melody, Hausfrau und Mutter, wachsen die Ausgaben fur ihr Vorstadthauschen und die Collegegebuhren ihrer Tochter uber den Kopf. Antiquitatenhandler Jack hat hinter dem Rucken seines Ehemanns das Sommerhaus verpfandet. Beatrice, erfolglose Schriftstellerin, will endlich ihr Apartment vergroern. Doch kurz bevor das Erbe ausbezahlt wird, verwendet ihre Mutter es, um Playboy Leo aus einer Notlage zu helfen. Unfreiwillig wiedervereint, mussen die Geschwister sich mit altem Groll und falschen Gewissheiten auseinandersetzen. Aber vor allem mussen sie irgendwo frisches Geld auftreiben Meisterhaft erzahlter, boser und witziger Familienroman

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'I couldn't stop reading or caring about the juicy and dysfunctional Plumb family' AMY POEHLER 'A masterfully constructed, darkly comic, and immensely captivating tale...Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney is a real talent' ELIZABETH GILBERT A sharp and funny debut about a wonderfully dysfunctional New York family and the three grown-up siblings fighting to save the family money pot - the 'nest' - as their oldest brother threatens to lose it all. When Leo Plumb drives off drunk from a party in a sports car with a nineteen-year-old waitress in tow, to the moral and legal fallout must be added the horrible inconvenience to his brother and sisters. Leo's rehab costs have severely depleted 'the nest' - the family's joint trust fund that would have cut them loose from their myriad financial issues. For Melody, a suburban wife and mother, it was to cover both an unwieldy mortgage and her daughters' college tuition. Antiques dealer Jack has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband. And Beatrice, a once-promising short story writer, can't seem to finish her overdue novel. Brought together as never before, the Plumb siblings must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledging the choices they have made in their own lives. Ferociously astute, warm and funny, The Nest is a brilliant debut chronicling the hilarity and savagery of family life.

A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs' joint trust fund, The Nest, which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems.Melody, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack, an antiques dealer, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband, Walker, to keep his store open. And Bea, a once-promising short-story writer, just can t seem to finish her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and, by extension, the people they love? Or will everyone need to reimagine the futures they ve envisioned? Brought together as never before, Leo, Melody, Jack, and Beatrice must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives.This is a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love."

Melody, Jack, Bea y Leo son los cuatro hermanos de la familia Plumb, de Nueva York. Desde hace años sabían que les tocaría una herencia el día en que Melody, la más joven, cumpliera los cuarenta. Pero cuando Leo, el carismático hermano mayor, da al traste con sus previsiones, la esperanza de un futuro sin sobresaltos económicos se esfuma para siempre. ¿Será Leo capaz de salvar a su familia? ¿O tendrán que renunciar a sus sueños?

Una novela aclamada por el público y por la crítica estadounidense que ha vendido más de 300.000 ejemplares y que será publicada en todo el mundo por las editoriales que marcan tendencia en el sector.Melody, Jack, Bea y Leo son los cuatro hermanos de la familia Plumb de Nueva York. Desde hace años sabian que les toca-ria una herencia el dia que Melody, la mas joven, cumpliera los cuarenta. Pero cuando Leo, el carismatico y seductor hermano mayor, da al traste con sus previsiones, la esperanza de un futuro sin sobresaltos economicos se esfuma para siempre. Melody soñaba con liquidar la hipoteca y con una educacion universitaria de elite para sus hijas gemelas; Jack, con pagar las deudas que ha generado su negocio de antiguedades sin tener que confesar a su marido que ha hipotecado la casa de la playa; y Beatrice, bueno, Beatrice solo desea encontrar la inspiracion para escribir su gran novela, un proyecto que arrastra desde que fue considerada una joven promesa de las letras.¿Sera Leo capaz de salvar a su familia? ¿O todos tendran que renunciar a sus sueños por su culpa?

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!"Plumbs the depths of marriage, motherhood and friendship with warmth and wit. I devoured it in one gulp! Maria SempleA warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship from Cynthia DAprix Sweeney, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The NestFlora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husbands wedding ringthe one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five.Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julians small theater companyGood Companyafloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now? With Cynthia DAprix Sweeneys signature tenderness, humor, and insight, Good Company tells a bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us. A Most Anticipated Book From: OprahMag.com * Refinery29 * HoustonChronicle * The Millions * Elle * Buzzfeed

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades.Its 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, New York, a place long fueled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox and, for some, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend, she can no longer dismiss the nearly nonexistent intimacy of her marriage. Just as her oldest child, Clara, is falling in love for the first time, Nina finds herself longing for the forbidden: a midlife awakening. An intoxicating fling with a prominent neighbor brings Nina a freedom she never thought possiblebut also risks the reputations of both families and unravels Claras world, just as she stands on the threshold of adulthood.Years later, Clara, now a successful food stylist in New York City, has never been able to move past the long-ago scandal. Drawn back home by the pull of a family wedding and wrestling with her own demons, she makes a pivotal decision that turns her life upside down. Written with Cynthia DAprix Sweeneys signature humor and insight, Lake Effect is a wise and probing look at love and desire, mothers and daughters, loss and grief, and what we owe the people we love most.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I couldnt stop reading or caring about the juicy and dysfunctional Plumb family AMY POEHLER A masterfully constructed, darkly comic, and immensely captivating taleCynthia DAprix Sweeney is a real talent ELIZABETH GILBERT A sharp and funny debut about a wonderfully dysfunctional New York family and the three grown-up siblings fighting to save the family money pot the nest as their oldest brother threatens to lose it all. When Leo Plumb drives off drunk from a party in a sports car with a nineteen-year-old waitress in tow, to the moral and legal fallout must be added the horrible inconvenience to his brother and sisters. Leos rehab costs have severely depleted the nest the familys joint trust fund that would have cut them loose from their myriad financial issues. For Melody, a suburban wife and mother, it was to cover both an unwieldy mortgage and her daughters college tuition. Antiques dealer Jack has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband. And Beatrice, a once-promising short story writer, cant seem to finish her overdue novel. Brought together as never before, the Plumb siblings must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledging the choices they have made in their own lives. Ferociously astute, warm and funny, The Nest is a brilliant debut chronicling the hilarity and savagery of family life.

Hilarious and big-hearted, The Nest is a stellar debut. PeopleA warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs joint trust fund, The Nest, which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nests value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems.Melody, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack, an antiques dealer, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband, Walker, to keep his store open. And Bea, a once-promising short-story writer, just cant seem to finish her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and, by extension, the people they love? Or will everyone need to reimagine the futures theyve envisioned? Brought together as never before, Leo, Melody, Jack, and Beatrice must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives.This is a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, Cynthia DAprix Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love.

Una novela aclamada por el público y por la crítica estadounidense que ha vendido más de 300.000 ejemplares y que será publicada en todo el mundo por las editoriales que marcan tendencia en el sector. Melody, Jack, Bea y Leo son los cuatro hermanos de la familia Plumb de Nueva York. Desde hace años sabian que les tocaria una herencia el dia que Melody, la mas joven, cumpliera los cuarenta. Pero cuando Leo, el carismatico y seductor hermano mayor, da al traste con sus previsiones, la esperanza de un futuro sin sobresaltos economicos se esfuma para siempre. Melody soñaba con liquidar la hipoteca y con una educacion universitaria de elite para sus hijas gemelas, Jack, con pagar las deudas que ha generado su negocio de antiguedades sin tener que confesar a su marido que ha hipotecado la casa de la playa y Beatrice, bueno, Beatrice solo desea encontrar la inspiracion para escribir su gran novela, un proyecto que arrastra desde que fue considerada una joven promesa de las letras. ¿Sera Leo capaz de salvar a su familia? ¿O todos tendran que renunciar a sus sueños por su culpa?

Carregat d’humor i de deliciosa ironia, el debut de Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney és una novel·la addictiva i embriagadora que descriu una apassionant foguera de les vanitats a l’epicentre d’una disfuncion