The Girls

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453255810

<DIV><B>Meet the four Witkovsky sisters in this &ldquo;fierce, hopeful&rdquo; novel about growing old, &ldquo;lightened by a wicked sense of humor&rdquo; (<I>Newsday</I>).<BR /><BR /> A <I>Los Angeles Times </I>Best Book of the Year</B><BR /><BR /> Eighty-year-old Jenny&mdash;the baby of the family&mdash;has flown down to Miami, Florida&mdash;that gaudy, pastel-hued haven of the elderly&mdash;to look after her two oldest sisters: Eva, still going strong at ninety-five, and Naomi, ninety, who is riddled with cancer but retains her tart tongue and her jet-black head of hair. Then there&rsquo;s Flora, an energetic eighty-five, who spends her time dating and making the rounds of the retirement homes with her standup routine.<BR /><BR /> Their parents are long gone, their three brothers more recently so, but the sisters remain a family&mdash;with all the arguments and rivalries that entails. In a novel the <I>Los Angeles Times</I> hails as &ldquo;quietly affecting,&rdquo; Jenny, Eva, Naomi, and Flora wrestle with aches and pains, wheelchairs and walkers, as well as the questions we all face about independence, loss, and what really matters in the long run.<BR /><BR /> A former literary editor for the<I>&#160;Nation </I>and a <I>New Yorker </I>contributor, Helen Yglesias conjures the unquenchable humor and immense courage of four very different women, and moves us to laughter and tears, in a story <I>Publishers Weekly </I>deems for &ldquo;anyone who is watching people they love grow old&rdquo;&mdash;or contemplating the experience.</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV>