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The Jetsetters: Reese's Book Club
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - Named One of the Best Beach Reads of the Year by Parade, O: The Oprah Magazine, and Good Housekeeping
"The exuberant activity aboard the Splendido Marveloso is no match for the fireworks set off as the lies explode. Full of wicked humor and delicious destination details."--People (Book of the Week)
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE
When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the Become a Jetsetter contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can't seem to find a partner; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young, when she was a single mother who meant everything to them.
When she wins the contest, the family packs their baggage--both literal and figurative--and spends ten days traveling from sun-drenched Athens through glorious Rome to tapas-laden Barcelona on an over-the-top cruise ship, the Splendido Marveloso. As lovers new and old join the adventure, long-buried secrets are revealed and old wounds are reopened, forcing the Perkins family to confront the forces that drove them apart and the defining choices of their lives.
Can four lost adults find the peace they've been seeking by reconciling their childhood aches and coming back together? In the vein of The Nest and The Vacationers, The Jetsetters is a delicious and intelligent novel about the courage it takes to reveal our true selves, the pleasures and perils of family, and how we navigate the seas of adulthood.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780399181917
EAN:
9780399181917
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
384
Authors:
Amanda Eyre Ward
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Published Date: 2021-30-03
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Nice story of family trouble s and how long lasting the effects are. A complex story of family dynamics. All of Charlottes nd Winstons children suffered growing up but all seemed to find their path at the end
I think I’ll give this a 3.5. It wasn’t amazing or even great but I enjoyed reading it and thought the characters and scenes of the cruise and Europe were fun and entertaining. I wouldn’t say it’s 100% light hearted though with a bit of family drama, divorce, alcoholism, suicide, etc in the mix. It’s a tough book to review but it was a quick read and less dark than my normal which I liked.
Very disjointed, fragmented family drama revolving around 71 year old mother Charlotte and her three adult children. She wins a cruise and they go to get reunited and closer to each other. Not sure if that really happens. Everyone of the children is a flawed character with a serious problem. Charlotte has issues that are a bit lame and ridiculous. Another disappointment from Reese Witherspoon's book club.
Interesting storyline and a fun read . An aging mother who is feeling sorry for herself and adult children who believe their mother is stuck in her old fashioned ways of thinking and doing. They all end up taking a cruise on an ocean liner and getting to really know one another. I found the book amusing and a fun read, because things are not always as they seem. As in real life, people have preconceived ideas, judgments, about others that are not necessarily true, and in fact can be quite the opposite.
This is the story of a family that underwent significant verbal abuse and trauma and grew apart for various reasons. Under the premise of a contest won by the matriarch of the family, the Perkins come together again for a nine day European cruise and their demons and secrets come to be laid out. This story had a lot going on, but I don't know that all were successfully fleshed out. The ending was some what Abrupt, and while I grew to care about the goings on of certain characters, I felt more could be said about what happens to them.
