Margaret Hawkins
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Every year, Lydia hosts a party for six women friends who treasure the midwinter bash. Over a table laden with food and wine, they'll revel in newsy updates, simmering secrets, and laughter. We follow the flawed but lovable characters through their party preparations and share stolen moments of meditation on their lives. But as this particular evening unfolds, Lydia prepares to make a shattering announcement that will change them in unexpected ways....
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What happens when nothing happens? Maryanne wonders in A Year of Cats and Dogs, a darkly funny yet hopeful novel about a woman in midlife who feels surrounded by death. She answers her own question by deciding to find out. "I wanted to embrace entropy, to stop working so hard at keeping things up, to go AWOL from the productive world I'd so long been a part of," she tells us at the beginning of the novel. "The clearer it became that Phillip wasn't...