Wouldn't Miss it for the World
Available August 14
A striking exploration of dubious pursuits like destination weddings, book clubs, and rock'n'roll, Wouldn't Miss it for the World is a spirited and surprising new novel from Tara McCarthy, the author of Love Will Tear Us Apart.
The cast of characters that Tara McCarthy sends down to the tiny Central American country of Belize for a destination wedding are in for a few surprises.
- There's mother-of-the-bride Alice, a widow, who is about to come face to face with an impressive array of Belizean creatures, from toucans to intriguing ex-pats.
- There's Abby, who would rather be back home at Chelsea Lambert's Sweet Sixteen but isn't entirely displeased with the effects of her new black bikini on some of the wedding guests.
- And there's Dan, an old friend of the groom, who has decided it's time to declare his love for the bride-until complications with his girlfriend arise.
As their story unfolds against a backdrop of Mayan temples, butterfly farms, and coral reefs, we learn, too, about the bride and the groom. June and Cash are members of the Starter House, an up-and-coming rock band that is certain to either break through or break up-and this will be the week that decides it.
Love Will Tear Us Apart
On Sale Now!
By turns hilarious and poignant, Love Will Tear Us Apart is a surprisingly moving tale of girlhood dreams lost and found—and a stirring account of the tragic demise of an extraordinary pop empire.
When thirty-five-year-old celebrity journalist Sloan Madden is asked to write a biography of Grammy-winning pop princesses Flora and Fauna Sparks—sexy seventeen-year-old Siamese twins who are joined at the hip—she thinks it’ll be an easy, lucrative gig. But as soon as she takes the job, Sloan discovers that the Sparks sisters’ empire hides deep cracks. She’s barely signed her book contract before Fauna confesses her devastating secret: she wants to record a solo album.
Moving into a guest suite at the Joint—the notoriously symmetrical Beverly Hills home the twins share with their Bud-sucking father, Ed—perpetually single Sloan can’t help but start to view her own life differently. Suddenly everything from the affair she’s having with debonair screenwriter Brian Understahl, to her unrequited love for her best friend, Travis, to her odd, burgeoning desire for the twins’ troubled father leaves her wondering whether couplehood isn’t overrated&em;whether there isn’t something more to life. But redemption comes at a price. And with Flora and Fauna pulling her into their downward spiral of catfights, career sabotage, drug use, sex, and jealousy, Sloan stands to lose as much as she has to gain.
