{"product_id":"sundays-on-the-phone-to-monday-9781501116889","title":"Sundays on the Phone to Monday","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis coming soon.......\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSunday’s on the Phone to Monday \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how trouble, when visited upon a loving family, can be transformed—if imperfectly—by curiosity, empathy, and imagination. We’re in a poet’s hands; every sentence here crackles with electric vitality. \u003cb\u003eThis is a unique and big-hearted novel\u003c\/b\u003e.” * Pamela Erens, author of The Virgins *\u003cbr\u003e\"Reilly’s debut novel explores how a love evolves as responsibilities mount for two parents with three very different daughters…deft in her characterizations…full of imaginative anecdotes and vibrant details…\u003cb\u003eReilly’s first novel is touching and nostalgic\u003c\/b\u003e.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday’s on the Phone to Monday\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ean energetic, captivating, and lyrical debut\u003c\/b\u003e. Here is a writer with a wonderfully eccentric way of seeing the world, weaving a family story both whimsical and profound, in which each character is dealt with tenderly, and each sentence is an adventure. \u003cb\u003eChristine Reilly is a talent to watch\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Amy Shearn, author of The Mermaid of Brooklyn and How Far Is The Ocean From Here\u003cbr\u003e\"Reminiscent of Lorrie Moore, and J.D. Salinger, and “Mr and Mrs Bridge,” \u003ci\u003eSunday's on the Phone to Monday\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea beautiful thing\u003c\/b\u003e, the kind of book a poet would dream a novel was.\" -- Daniel Wallace, author of The Kings and Queens of Roam and Big Fish\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003cb\u003eprismatic and moving\u003c\/b\u003e exploration of how the past can haunt, motivate, and ultimately heal us—or in the words of Natasha Simone, “Memory can be like medicine.” With great empathy and a keen eye for the offbeat detail, Christine Reilly depicts a family unique in its troubles but universal in its longing to overcome them. Reilly is masterful in her illumination of the inner lives of her characters.\" -- Mary Otis, author of Yes, Yes Cherries\u003cbr\u003e“With subtle genius and a wide-open heart, Christine Reilly invites us into a world that is at once strange and familiar. \u003cb\u003eA stunning debut\u003c\/b\u003e.\" -- Alethea Black, author of I Knew You'd be Lovely\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSunday's on the Phone to Monday\u003c\/i\u003e is a fantastic love letter to New York City. This is a multi-generational story of death and life, illness and wellness. Reilly is the undisputed master at spinning poetry into prose. Her words are \u003cb\u003earresting, poignant, and searingly optimistic\u003c\/b\u003e.\" -- Kim Stolz, author of Unfriending My Ex\u003cbr\u003e“A \u003cb\u003elyrical and poetic\u003c\/b\u003e look at family, love, and loss.” * PopSugar *\u003cbr\u003eThis whimsical, bittersweet debut novel \u003cb\u003erecalls the work of filmmaker Wes Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e, both in subject (a complicated, tightknit family full of smart, worried people) and in style (full of quirky, impossible-to-ignore formal choices). * Kirkus (Starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eChristine Reilly’s shimmering debut hurls us into the beating center of the Simone family, and our attachment is immediate and lasting. Both tender and dark, big-hearted and heart-breaking, \u003ci\u003eSunday’s on the Phone to Monday\u003c\/i\u003e is a book you won’t forget, \u003cb\u003efilled with quiet power and roaring truths\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Megan Abbott, author of The Fever\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eA compelling family tale\u003c\/b\u003e rich in vivid and relatable struggles.\" * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003e\"A \u003cb\u003esharply observed and bittersweet\u003c\/b\u003e family romance with a rock ’n’ roll heart.... Reilly’s dreamy, slipstream style dazzles.\" * Elle *\u003cbr\u003e“A fusion of a poet’s relentless focus on the possibilities of a single word with the novelist’s construction of imagined worlds.”--Kirkus","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49531331445079,"sku":"9781501116889","price":15.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501116889.jpg?v=1731882687","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sundays-on-the-phone-to-monday-9781501116889","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}