The Hunchback Of Neiman Marcus A Novel About Marriage, Motherhood, And Mayhem [Paperback]

“Funny, fresh, and heartbreakingly poignant, this book had me laughing and crying at the same time.”
—Meg Cabot, author ofThe Princess Diariesseries andInsatiable

“I readThe Hunchback of Neiman Marcusand I saw the light and the mirror and fell under Sonya Sones’ spell.”
— Jacquelyn Mitchard, author ofThe Deep End of the Ocean

“Wallpaper a room with the pages ofThe Hunchback of Neiman Marcus. It will be your favorite place. The room you come back to again and again, year after year.”
—Ilene Beckerman, author ofLove, Loss, and What I Wore

Celebrated YA novelist Sonya Sones makes a HUGE splash with her first adult novel,The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus, spinning a funny, fierce, and piercingly honest coming-of-middle-age story about falling apart and putting yourself back together. Nora Ephron’sI Feel Bad About My Neckmeets Elizabeth Berg—boldly original and endlessly enthralling—The Hunchback of Neiman Marcusis a luminous, brilliantly told story of life, marriage, and parenthood that you will not soon forget.

My name is Holly.
This story is about me—
a writer who's way behind
on her deadline.

But, honestly,
how can I concentrate on my work
when my fiftieth birthday's
rushing at me like a freight train,

my hormones are making me feel
like a Szechuan flambé,
and my eighty-year-old mother's
biting her nurses?

Not to mention the fact that my daughter's
just begun applying to colleges
(none of which are within
a thousand-mile radius of home),

and lately my husband's been
such an irritating, finger-pointing stinker
that I've found myself dreaming of ways
to spend his insurance money . . .

My name is Holly.
This book
tells my story—
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