{"product_id":"minus-me-paperback","title":"Minus Me - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMameve Medwed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHer life turned upside down by a grim diagnosis, a small-town Maine woman sets about writing a \"How To\" life manual for her handsome yet hapless husband in a novel Elinor Lipman (\u003ci\u003eGood Riddance, On Turpentine Lane\u003c\/i\u003e) calls \"smart, funny-quirky, and so very satisfying.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnnie and her devoted but comically incompetent childhood sweetheart Sam are the owners and operators of Annie's, a gourmet sandwich shop, home to the legendary Paul Bunyan Special Sandwich--their \"nutritionally challenged continual source of income and marital harmony and local fame.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut into their mostly charmed marriage comes the scary medical diagnosis for Annie--and the overwhelming challenge of finding a way to help Sam go on without her. Annie decides to leave Sam step-by-step instructions for a future without her, and considers her own replacement in his heart and their bed.Her best-laid plans grind to a halt with the unexpected appearance of Ursula, Annie's Manhattan diva of a mother, who brings her own brand of chaos and disruption into their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinus Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a poignant and hilarious novel about the bonds of marriage, the burdens of maternal love, and the courage to face mortality, \"with an ending readers will cherish (Caroline Leavitt, \u003ci\u003ePictures of You)\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Medwed's lovely novel of marriage, motherhood, love and loss is so real that at times it feels like non-fiction. It's a timely reminder that in the worst of times, we sometimes rediscover the very best of ourselves.\" --Jodi Picoult, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eA Spark of Light\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Maine and named for two grandmothers, Mamie and Eva (pronounced May-Meeve), Bangor's \"other\" writer (after Stephen King), \u003cb\u003eMameve Medwed\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels, \u003ci\u003eMail, Host Family, The End of an Error, How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life.\u003c\/i\u003e (2007 Massachusetts Book Award Honors in Fiction) and\u003ci\u003e Of Men and Their Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e. She has published essays in three anthologies: \u003ci\u003eHow to Spell Chanukah \u003c\/i\u003e(Algonquin), \u003ci\u003eMy Bookstore\u003c\/i\u003e (Black Dog and Leventhal) and \u003ci\u003eWhat My Mother Gave Me \u003c\/i\u003e(Algonquin). Her short stories, essays, and book reviews have appeared in, among others, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Gourmet, Yankee, Redbook, Playgirl, The Boston Globe, Ascent, The Missouri Review, Confrontation, Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Washington Post.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 12, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256577081593,"sku":"9781643856438","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/G0faZWV0vH9781643856438.webp?v=1768734711","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/minus-me-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}