Meeting New People by Daniel M. Lavery Penguin One of the 25 Best

One of the 25 Best Fantasies of All Time

unmarried and outspoken

and surreal quest to build a new you

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And the handsome benefactor behind it all is as magnetic as he is unsettling

Meeting New People by Daniel M. Lavery Penguin One of the 25 BestFiftysomething, twice divorced Barbara is at a crossroads. In the midst of her emotional uncertainty, she looks back on the dissolution of the nine best friendships of her life, in hopes of figuring out how to optimize finding her tenth, and hopefully last, best friend. Barbara is acerbic, opinionated, and wrong about many things, but she also doesn't shy away when she's at fault. The turning point of her predicament comes from Barbara's choice, in