Product Overview
From one of Americas greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness, and love
The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But families dont just grow, they grow old, and the clans matriarch, Joy, is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would have wished. When Joys beloved husband dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mothers loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joys college days. And they didnt count on Joy herself, a mother suddenly as willful and rebellious as their own kids.
The New York Timesbestselling author Cathleen Schine has been called full of invention, wit, and wisdom that can bear comparison to [ Jane] Austens own (The New York Review of Books), and she is at her best in this intensely human, profound, and honest novel about the intrusion of old age into the relationships of one loving but complicated family. They May Not Mean To, But They Do is a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together.
