Friends and Strangers

From the best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions (named one of the Washington Post’s Ten Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Critics’ Pick) comes an insightful,hilariousand compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life. Elisabethan accomplished journalist and new motheris struggling to adjust to life in a small town after twenty years in New York City. A job opportunity for her husbandand the chance to live closer to his financially struggling parentsconvinced Elisabeth to move. But alone in the new house with their infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night)she feels uneasyadrift. She neglects her worklosing untold hours to her Brooklyn moms’ Facebook groupher \