Other People's Houses

library binding, 352 pages

Published April 24, 2018 by Turtleback Books.

ISBN:
978-0-606-41290-2
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3 stars (3 reviews)

""Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin And now the author of The Garden of Small Beginnings returns with a hilarious and poignant new novel about four families, their neighborhood carpool, and the affair that changes everything. At any given moment in other people's houses, you can find...repressed hopes and dreams...moments of unexpected joy...someone making love on the floor to a man who is most definitely not her husband... record scratch As the longtime local carpool mom, Frances Bloom is sometimes an unwilling witness to her neighbors' private lives. She knows her cousin is hiding her desire for another baby from her spouse, Bill Horton's wife is mysteriously missing, and now this... After the shock of seeing Anne Porter in all her extramarital glory, Frances vows to stay in her own lane. But that's a notion easier said than done when Anne's husband …

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3 stars

What a slow moving book. One of the plot points mentioned in the blurb doesn't happen until fully halfway into the book and the book only gets moderately more interesting at that point. It doesn't get fully interesting until about 90% where all of the slow-burning threads are starting to unravel.

I liked this and I found it well written. The author certainly does a good job of capturing the minutia of daily life with kids, and she does a good job of shifting through so many POVs. I picked this up because the blurb made it sound juicier than it actually was. I liked it, but I also found it sedate, so I'm not sure I would read anything else by the author.