Friends and Strangers

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An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life, from the bestselling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions.

Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years in New York City. Alone in the house with her infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night), she feels uneasy, adrift. She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn moms'' Facebook group, her "influencer" sister''s Instagram feed, and text messages with the best friend she never sees anymore. Enter Sam, a senior at the local women''s college, whom Elisabeth hires to babysit. Sam is struggling to decide between the path she''s always planned on and a romantic entanglement that threatens her ambitio