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Superb'THE TIMESJoyous'THE OBSERVERThe beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime.The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous to tender. In Bridesmaid, Revisited,' Marilee, suffering from a laundry and life crisis, wears a massive bridesmaid's dress to work. In Twist and Shout,' Ericka's elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. In Turn Back, Turn Back,' a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor's deception. And in 561,' Charlene pays the true price of infidelity and is forced to help her husband's ex-wife move out of the family home.From one of our most celebrated writers, our bard of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong shoes, late
