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The Garden Party
The Garden Party: A Novel | Grace Dane Mazur
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A rehearsal dinner brings together two disparate families in a sparkling, witty novel set over the course of a single day. This enchanting novel takes place in Brookline, Massachusetts, where dinner in the garden is bringing together two families on the night before the wedding that should unite them. The families are not unfriendly but they are shy and leery of each other. The Barlows are a Wall Street Journal-reading family of lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, corporations and war crimes, golf and tennis. The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals, including a biologist who has studied why scorpions glow in the dark; a social activist who always needs rescuing; and a historian of ancient Babylonian cooking who is trying, while hosting the dinner party, to figure out whether Time is really shaped like baklava. The novel begins with the Cohens brewing morning coffee and considering the work they will have to do to prepare their house and gardens for the dinner, and it ends, late that very night, after a complicated series of fiascoes and miracles. Over the course of the day, it becomes clear that neither family is more eccentric than the other. Featuring an ensemble cast of exceptionally vivid characters ranging in age from three to early nineties, Grace Dane Mazur's wonderfully lyrical novel is an irresistible portrayal of miscommunication, secrets, and the power of love.
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ontheBL
The Garden Party: A Novel | Grace Dane Mazur
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It had all the makings of an incredible little novel. Unfortunately, it completely fell short. It's probably the most forgettable book I have ever read. So much so, I was forgetting it as I was reading it. || http://onthebl.org/2018/09/27/the-garden-party/

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ontheBL
The Garden Party: A Novel | Grace Dane Mazur
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I'm off on hurrication because I was supposed to vacation in North Carolina... Alas. I ended up in Miami! Read about the books I'm reading at: https://onthebl.org/2018/09/11/up-up-and-away-reads/

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Jnnlb
The Garden Party: A Novel | Grace Dane Mazur
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Loved this book check out my review of this book at thejwordpress.wordpress.com #netgalley #goodreads

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StellarDoc
The Garden Party: A Novel | Grace Dane Mazur
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Same book, different lunch.

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StellarDoc
The Garden Party: A Novel | Grace Dane Mazur
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Lunch time!

TheFunkyBookworm Love that cover 😍 6y
StellarDoc @TheFunkyBookworm If it weren't so hot right now, I would almost like to go to that party on the cover. 6y
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Samplergal
The Garden Party: A Novel | Grace Dane Mazur
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My day after a power walk. What are you reading?

Farzad_Poodineh I'm studying for exam.😔 6y
Samplergal Necessary and worthy. Good luck and know fun reading will follow. 6y
CaitlinR Sounds interesting. 6y
RadicalReader @Samplergal how are you enjoying yourself here on Litsy? 6y
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MrBook
The Garden Party: A Novel | Grace Dane Mazur
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#TBRtemptation post 5! Coming in 2018 Edition! Scheduled for a July release. The blurb does the title more justice than I could do, lol. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

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