Stuart Nadler. (2016). The Inseparables: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company.

Stuart Nadler. 2016. The Inseparables: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company.

Stuart Nadler, The Inseparables: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

Stuart Nadler. The Inseparables: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

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One of Kirkus' Best Books of 2016: Crisis is looming for three generations of the Olyphant family.
In less than a year, Henrietta has lost her husband and nearly all of her money, and is about to lose her hard-won anonymity. After a lifetime spent trying to outrun the humiliation her own book caused her, Henrietta has reluctantly agreed to a reissue of The Inseparables, the salaciously filthy and critically despised bestseller she wrote decades earlier.
At the same time, her daughter, Oona, has moved back home to the house that Henrietta needs to sell. Oona is in the middle of a divorce from her husband, Spencer, a corporate-law refugee, stay-at-home dad, and unapologetic stoner. And Oona's teenage daughter, Lydia, away at boarding school, is facing an onslaught of scrutiny and shame when a nude photo of her goes viral.
The trouble only gets worse: Henrietta makes an upsetting discovery about her late husband; Oona embarks on a disastrous affair; and Lydia must deal with an ex-boyfriend who is determined to wreak havoc. Over the course of a few tumultuous days, the Olyphant women must come to terms with their past and try to reimagine their future.
Incisive, moving, and wickedly funny, The Inseparables examines what happens when our most carefully constructed ideas about our lives unravel, and we begin to reinvent ourselves — and our family — anew.

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   • source: PRAISE FOR THE INSEPARABLES:
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   • source: Kim Hubbard, People
   • content: In this beguiling novel, three generations of articulate, self-aware women fall to pieces...With a fine understanding of women and a delicate wit, Nadler shepherds all three [women] through grief and humiliation and out the other side.
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   • source: Ann Leary, The New York Times Book Review
   • content: There is much to enjoy about this book. I laughed out loud at scenes...but the most memorable moments examine the intricacies of familial love—the bonds between mothers and daughters, men and women, boys and girls...[Nadler's writing is] carefully rendered, unpretentious and always with the reader's satisfaction on the front burner.
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   • source: J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Maine and The Engagements
   • content: THE INSEPARABLES is funny and sad and so wise about so many things—sex in the modern age, feminism, food, ambition, animals, marriage, mothers and daughters. Fathers and daughters too, for that matter. Weeks after finishing this gorgeous novel, I'm still thinking about the wonderful Olyphant women in all their complexity.
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   • source: Lucinda Rosenfeld, author of I'm So Happy for You and The Pretty One
   • content: It's a testament to Stuart Nadler's powers of empathy that I identified with all three generations of women in this witty and wise tale of female trouble and family mayhem.
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   • source: Elliott Holt, author of You Are One of Them
   • content: THE INSEPARABLES accomplishes the rare feat of being both timely—this is an incisive commentary on our culture in the digital age—and completely timeless. Stuart Nadler is sharply attuned to the ironies of life and his novel is insightful, funny, and deeply moving. THE INSEPARABLES is a profound story, not just about the Olyphant women, but about America. This is proof that Nadler is one of the great novelists of our generation.
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   • source: Nickolas Butler, internationally bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs and Beneath the Bonfire
   • content: THE INSEPARABLES reminded me of vintage Michael Chabon in all the right ways: keenly observed, raucously funny, and poignantly painful. The masterful prose sparkles and shines. But what makes THE INSEPARABLES so damn good are the perfectly realized characters, all popping off the page in 3-D. A great, great book.
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   • source: Jami Attenberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins and Saint Mazie
   • content: THE INSEPARABLES is a mature, sophisticated, self-assured, deeply entertaining piece of fiction. As I read it I couldn't stop saying to myself: now this is exactly how a book should work.
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   • source: Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and West of Here
   • content: At turns funny, thoughtful, and heart wrenching, THE INSEPARABLES is a deeply satisfying sage of mothers and daughters, sure to be a hit with book clubs. Stuart Nadler writes with clear-eyed confidence, keen insight, and great empathy for his characters.
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    • source: Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans
    • content: Stuart Nadler is an incredible writer—insanely smart and funny, confident and compassionate—and THE INSEPARABLES is a deeply moving and morally complex novel that pulls off the high-wire act of being both a brilliant examination of the psychological relationship between art and privacy, and a flat-out page-turner. Nadler writes with all the wit of Bellow and the psychological depth of Ozick. An extraordinary new novel by a writer with endless talent.
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    • source: Hannah Pittard, author of Listen to Me
    • content: I love stories about the honest (and difficult!) messiness of life and Stuart Nadler's THE INSEPARABLES is just that—it's a big, bold, bubbling novel, and I was hooked from page one.
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    • source: Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night
    • content: Stuart Nadler's savage wit and incendiary insights mix in this brilliant, funny and deeply moving novel to give us a glimpse into the generational moment we're all living in. This is a novel about how our culture treats sex, and the lives—and rights—of women of any age.
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    • source: Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers
    • content: Stuart Nadler is a perceptive, sharp, and hilarious writer, working at the top of his game. Fans of Meg Wolitzer and Tom Perrotta will go crazy for this book, which is smart and funny in equal measure.
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    • source: Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me
    • content: The sharp and immersive THE INSEPARABLES draws us deep into the lives of three devastated, indelible women—and masterfully illuminates how disaster can reveal new dimensions in the self. This is Stuart Nadler's finest work of fiction yet. From the first sentence to the last, the book inhaled my imagination like a bold and furious storm.
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    • source: Kirkus (Starred Review)
    • content: Nadler, a male writer in his 30s, truly dazzles with his understanding of women—this is the kind of book that will cause female readers to fall in love with the author...Love this writer. L
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      April 4, 2016
      Nadler’s (Wise Men) perceptive novel of a modern family unraveling revolves around three generations of women. Henrietta Olyphant is a recently widowed women’s studies professor, and the author of a decades-old trashy, sexy novel called The Inseparables, which is set to be reissued. Oona, Henrietta’s daughter, is divorcing her husband. And Oona’s daughter, Lydia, has suffered the misfortune of having a topless photo of her spread like wildfire around her private school. Without her husband, Henrietta struggles to keep up appearances and is forced to sell her home and possessions to pay the bills. Lydia
      worries that the boy who stole the photo from her phone will continue to release scandalous photos of her. Oona complicates her sad divorce—and her relationship with her daughter—by getting romantically involved with her couples counselor. Throughout each scene, Nadler captures the awkwardness of growing older during all phases of life. The characters share humiliations, yet also find the resilience
      to move on. This novel contains plenty of romance, tension, and tenderness to make for a rich and compelling read. Agent: PJ Mark, Janklow & Nesbit Associates.

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      Starred review from May 15, 2016
      Three generations of smart, articulate women deal with challenging life passages.Henrietta, 70, lost her beloved husband--a famous chef--11 months ago and cannot recover emotionally or financially. Her straits are such that she has grudgingly allowed the reissue of The Inseparables, an X-rated bestseller she wrote in her 20s. She's also started selling tchotchkes from around her house, but the most valuable of them, a weathervane, has gone missing. Meanwhile, her daughter, Oona, an orthopedic surgeon, is navigating the waters of a choppy divorce from her pothead ex-lawyer spouse, Spencer, and has embarked on a dubious relationship with their couples therapist. Oona and Spencer's 15-year-old daughter, Lydia, has been the victim of a terrible classmate at boarding school, Charlie, who made her think he was her boyfriend, gave her her first kiss, and then posted pictures of her breasts on the Internet. "Hartwell took students as young as six, taught them Mandarin, Shakespeare, and computer coding, and spat them back out in to the world as currency traders or diplomats or white-collar criminals." This Charlie kid is getting started early; he's ruined Lydia's life in a way not completely different than the overexposure that still torments her ex-sex-writer grandmother. Nadler (The Wise Men, 2013), a male writer in his 30s, truly dazzles with his understanding of women--this is the kind of book that will cause female readers to fall in love with the author. The three parallel plots unfold very tautly for at least two-thirds of the duration, then things slow down with too many flashbacks and digressions in the climactic chapters. The resolutions of all the problems are a little flat, if unarguably realistic. But these things are more something for book groups to talk about than serious flaws.Love this writer. Love these characters.

      COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      Starred review from June 1, 2016
      The Inseparables is the title of one of America's most famously trashy books (think Fear of Flying with diagrams), which Henrietta Olyphant wrote in her younger days and has been trying to live down ever since. Now her publisher wants to bring out a new edition, and Henrietta agrees because she needs the money. She is still grieving for her recently deceased husband, Harold, an uncompromising chef whose upscale Boston restaurant drained the family coffers. Daughter Oona, a busy orthopedic trauma surgeon, is facing the dissolution of her 20-year marriage to Spencer. And Oona's daughter, 15-year-old Lydia, has been suspended from boarding school because of a nude selfie that has made it onto the Internet, an embarrassment allowing sly comparisons with Henrietta's novel, which now seems quaint in contrast to what is freely available online. The title The Inseparables refers not just to Henrietta's book but also to the bonds that underpin the lives of these women, whose shifting perspectives present events that unfold over a few days. Nadler (Wise Men, 2013) excels at setting and sustaining a scene, and he writes with confidence and compassion about people trying to navigate their way through disruption.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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At the same time, her daughter, Oona, has moved back home to the house that Henrietta needs to sell. Oona is in the middle of a divorce from her husband, Spencer, a corporate-law refugee, stay-at-home dad, and unapologetic stoner. And Oona's teenage daughter, Lydia, away at boarding school, is facing an onslaught of scrutiny and shame when a nude photo of her goes viral.
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