6/12/2023 0 Comments Today will be different review![]() ![]() In one hilariously true moment, Eleanor recounts her last trip to Costco: “After an hour spent filling my cart so high it handled like a bumper car and required a hand across the top so everything wouldn’t slide off, I found my way to the checkout line. ![]() The power in Semple’s novel is its relatability. Then that prankster Reality appeared in the pickup truck ahead of me and started tossing watermelons out of the back. As Eleanor explains: “Lying in bed this morning, I had set the bar laughably low: look people in the eye, get dressed, smile! It should have been a Sunday drive. Then she receives a phone call from her son’s school informing her that he has a stomach ache and needs to be picked up. She makes a fateful trip to her husband’s office where she is faced with an unpleasant mystery, and she realizes that she has made a critical mistake and has made plans for lunch with an entirely different person – a person from her past she didn’t plan on ever seeing again. Her plans for the day include breakfast with her poetry instructor, yoga, lunch with a friend she hates, picking her son up from school, and then “giving back” to her husband, Joe, a prominent hand surgeon. A former animator for the popular TV series “Looper Wash,” Eleanor is now a stay-at-home mom and writer who is working on a graphic novel that is overdue to her publisher – by eight years. ![]() ![]() Eleanor Flood wakes up ready to tackle a new day. ![]()
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