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The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs
Contributor(s): Dicks, Matthew (Author), Hopkins, Cynthia (Read by)
ISBN: 142727312X     ISBN-13: 9781427273123
Publisher: MacMillan Audio
OUR PRICE:   $31.49  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: September 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life - General
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
- Fiction | Women
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 5.8" (0.66 lbs)
Themes:
- Topical - Family
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
 
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Publisher Description:

Caroline Jacobs has lost herself. She's a wife, mother (to a tattooed teenage daughter she avoids), Sears Portrait Studio photographer, and wimp. Asserting herself, taking the reins, or facing life head-on are not in her repertoire. So when Caroline suddenly cracks and screams "Fuck you " at the PTA president, she is shocked. So is her husband. So is the PTA president. So is everyone. But Caroline soon realizes the true cause of her outburst can be traced back to something that happened to her as a teenager, a scarring betrayal by her best friend Emily. This act changed Caroline's life forever. So, with a little bit of bravery flowing through her veins, Caroline decides to go back to her home town and confront Emily. She busts her daughter Polly out of school, and the two set off to deliver the perfect comeback, which is twenty-five years in the making. But nothing goes as planned. Long buried secrets begin to rise to the surface, and Caroline will have to face much more than one old, bad best friend.

A heartwarming story told with Matthew Dicks' signature wit, The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs is a deceptively simple novel about the ways in which our childhood experiences reverberate through our lives, and the bravery of one woman trying to change her life and finds true understanding of her daughter, and herself, along the way.


Contributor Bio(s): Dicks, Matthew: - MATTHEW DICKS is a writer and elementary school teacher. His articles have been published in the Hartford Courant and he has been a featured author at the Books on the Nightstand retreat. He is also a Moth storyteller and a two-time StorySLAM champion. Dicks is the author of the novels Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, Something Missing, and Unexpectedly Milo. He lives in Newington, Connecticut, with his wife, Elysha, and their children, Clara and Charlie.