"The Jetsetters: A Novel" by Amanda Eyre Ward, Ballantine Books. Humph – it won’t let me correct Reece to Reese – aarrgghh!
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For others, the thought of being stuck with loved ones having “forced fun” is a recipe for disaster. In “The Jetsetters” by Amanda Eyre Ward, Charlotte Perkins is enjoying her golden years for the most part.
Especially if that adventure takes place on a cruise ship. But when she wins that once in a lifetime trip, all doesn’t exactly go to plan….
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Her brother Cord is an attractive, successful businessman from Manhattan. Charlotte and her rich fruit aside, each of her children is in a convenient state of crisis.
Like the Picasso allusion, the Shakespearean nod feels like a name-drop without a purpose. Lee calls herself a popular actress. To her surprise, she's selected and finds herself bound for Europe. Alternating between each family member’s point of view gives “The Jetsetters” a unique perspective on each character, Ray writes.
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Lee calls herself a popular actress.
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As long-buried secrets are revealed, and lovers new and old appear, can these four lost adults find their way back to each other?
Ward has created a complex story that explores the tragedies and long-term effects of withheld love, verbal abuse, alcoholism, and depression on individuals and their families, set against the backdrop of a splendidly gaudy, over-the-top Mediterranean cruise ship and its historic ports of call.” — Kirkus Reviews“Each character’s dysfunctions run deep, and each plot twist threatens to sink their sanity, resulting in a funny, moving tale of the complications of familial love.” —Booklist.
Alternating between each family member’s point of view gives “The Jetsetters” a unique perspective on each character, Ray writes. The novel is set in the year 2015.
Old wounds are reopened, truths are revealed and secrets are shared.
About the Book The Jetsetters. Can four lost adults find the peace they’ve been seeking by reconciling their childhood aches and coming back together?
Author interviews, book reviews and lively book commentary are found here. Behavior is atrocious. Book Review: The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward. Even though her resume technically doesn’t reflect that fact, she doesn’t want to come clean to her family just yet.
Family secrets are exposed. A lonely 71-year-old widow wins a trip to Europe and takes her three grown children in an attempt to reconnect with them. and No – Europeans aren’t naked at all times on the beach. Thanks for your review. Charlotte’s husband was an alcoholic bully who alternately ignored and berated his children. Family vacations abroad can be an experience of a lifetime for some families. . This novel fell squarely in my wheelhouse and I was delighted anew in every port. With a little bit of persuasion and a ton of guilt, the Perkins kids begrudgingly pack their bags and hide their secrets. . But thank you to the publishers for an ARC – and for letting me prove I’m not always gushing about books!!
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by Amanda Eyre Ward. Amanda Eyre Ward’s “The Jetsetters” is one of those books, delivering a narrative of family dysfunction in which each member is a mess and everyone gets a say. Every single Perkins is effed up in their own unique way, and every single one of them cares about the others – in … For others, the thought of being stuck with loved ones having "forced fun" is a recipe for disaster. The author’s eye for forced fun is exquisite. Change ), Book Review: The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward, Audiobook Review: Quite by Claudia Winkleman, Book Review: The Chalet by Catherine Cooper, Book Review: Secrets in the Snow by Emma Heatherington, Book Review: The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood, Book Review: Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong by Elizabeth Day. Not wanting to travel alone, Charlotte crafts a plan to invite her three estranged children to traipse through Athens, Rome and Barcelona. Lee, whose birth name is Elizabeth Lear, is an unstable actress in Hollywood who has aged out of ingénue roles.
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Review: `The Jetsetters' is story of a dysfunctional family. "The Jetsetters: A Novel" by Amanda Eyre Ward, Ballantine Books Family vacations abroad can be an experience of a lifetime for some families. Once we board the Splendido Marveloso in Athens, Ward reveals that she has a way with humor. Eek – sorry!!! Pennsylvania postal worker uneasy, unbowed in election whistleblower role Click to Read More Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Defined by a long-ago tragedy and long-held grudges, grievances, and resentments, the Perkins clan has plenty of reasons to ke I was lucky to read this wonderful novel in advance and write a blurb for it. Copyright © 2020 The Washington Times, LLC.
“The Jetsetters: a Novel," Ballantine Books, by Amanda Eyre Ward. Not wanting to travel alone, Charlotte crafts a plan to invite her three estranged children to traipse through Athens, Rome and Barcelona.
“Ward nails how family expeditions are ruined and saved, over and over again, by fleeting moments of connection and the consensus to survive without killing one another.”— The New York Times Book Review, “Dysfunctional family goes away together on a Mediterranean cruise: What's not to love? Novelists have been especially adroit lately at upending conventional narratives, perhaps because they’re inspired by the truthy hellscape we’re living in.
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It turns out that Ward is once again writing about morally fraught issues.