{"product_id":"lorna-mott-comes-home-9780525562658","title":"Lorna Mott Comes Home","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the best-selling \u003ci\u003eLe Divorce\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLe Mariage\u003c\/i\u003e, a sly, subversive, and utterly delightful comedy of manners (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLorna Mott Dumas, small, pretty, high-strung, is the epitome of a successful woman--with lovely offspring and grandchildren, a French husband, a delightful house, and an independent career as an admired art lecturer. She has both an uncomplicated, sociable nature and an intellectual life. But then Lorna decides to leave her husband, a notorious seducer, and his small ancestral village in France, and return to an America she has been away from for twenty years. For Lorna, a beautiful idyll is over, finished, done ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eLorna Mott Comes Home, \u003c\/i\u003e Diane Johnson brings us into the dreamy, anxiety-filled world of a woman struggling to create a new life in San Francisco. Into the mix come her ex-husband, her three grown children, and her grandchildren, all with their own dramatic troubles, navigating a tumultuous mix of comedy and tragedy, happiness and anxiety, contentment and striving, generosity and greed, love and sex. In this witty and poignant novel, Johnson--long our Edith Wharton of expat life--comes home to America to deftly portray, with the lightest of touches, the way we live here, now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525562658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.69d","brand":"Diane Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42148853088437,"sku":"9780525562658","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_92a5768d-a49b-491a-86c6-88803f58e7e8.jpg?v=1653485686","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lorna-mott-comes-home-9780525562658","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}