The Wise Women
Book Feature - The Wise Women by Gina Sorell
HBL Note: Following the success of her previous novel, Mothers and Other Strangers, Gina Sorell is back with another novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters. In THE WISE WOMEN, we follow “two adult daughters of a meddling advice columnist.” And I want to pause right there, because mothers have a lot of advice (at least mine does…love you mom!) but can you imagine a mother who makes a living as an advice columnist? That would be tough… So I’m already feeling for these two daughters. ha! Scroll down to read more about THE WISE WOMEN by Gina Sorell.
Book Feature - The Wise Women by Gina Sorell
From the publisher:
Popular advice columnist Wendy Wise has been skillfully advising the women who write to her seeking help for four decades, so why are her own daughters’ lives such a mess? Clementine, the working mother of a six-year-old boy, has just discovered that she is actually renting the Queens home that she thought she owned, because her husband Steve secretly funneled their money into his flailing start-up. Meanwhile, her sister Barb has overextended herself at her architecture firm and reunited semi-unhappily with her cheating girlfriend.
When Steve goes MIA and Clementine receives an eviction notice, Wendy swoops in to save the day, even though her daughters, who are holding onto some resentments from childhood, haven’t asked for her help. But as soon as Wendy sets her sights on hunting down her rogue son-in-law, Barb and Clementine quickly discover that their mother has been hiding more than a few problems of her own.
As the three women confront the disappointments and heartaches that have accumulated between them over the years, they discover that while the future may look entirely different from the one that they’ve expected, it may be even brighter than they’d hoped.
