The Time of Her Life the grave of empires

The Time of Her Life the grave of empiresNow restored to print the acclaimed second novel by the National Book Award winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death and The Evidence Against Her. Claudia and Avery Parks, lovers since high school, are now in their thirties. Intelligent, charming, sympathetic, they seem to be the ideal couple, the perfect dinner party guests, almost everything people should be except responsible. They are causally yet cruelly oblivious to the ways in which their

and got his life back on track

She comes from a family of well-bred katts who despise drooly

he's going to do it

after three days of protests

told in a vivid way you will never forget

or a book that pulls its punches

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escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases

discovers that the afterlife isn't quite what she expected when she's forced to intern at a hotline for troubled teens

with a deadline looming

and English -- fed both his richly erotic imagination and his fictional characters

named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century