Good Company
A Novel
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"Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney plumbs the depths of marriage, motherhood and friendship with warmth and wit. I devoured it in one gulp! Treat yourself to some Good Company." (Maria Semple, author of Today Will Be Different)
A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship from Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of the instant New York Times best seller The Nest
Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than 20 years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring - the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five.
Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian’s small theater company - Good Company - afloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now?
With Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s signature tenderness, humor, and insight, Good Company tells a bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us.
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Nestled on the Oregon coast is a small town of rocky beaches and rugged charm. Locals love the land’s unspoiled beauty. Developers see it as a potential gold mine. When newcomer Hank Cooper learns he’s been left an old friend’s entire beachfront property, he finds himself with a community’s destiny in his hands. Cooper has never been a man to settle in one place, and Thunder Point was supposed to be just another quick stop. But Cooper finds himself getting involved with the town. And with Sarah Dupre, a woman as complicated as she is beautiful.
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Scars and Stilettos: At 13, after being abandoned by her mother one summer and left to take care of her younger brother, Harmony becomes susceptible to a relationship that turns out to be toxic, abusive, and ultimately exploitative. She eventually finds herself working in a strip club at the age of 19, and her boyfriend becomes her pimp, controlling her every move and taking all of her money. Ultimately, she discovers a path to freedom and a whole new life.
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With or Without You
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After almost 20 years together, Stella and Simon are starting to run into problems. An up-and-coming rock musician when they first met, Simon has been clinging to dreams of fame even as the possibility of it has grown dimmer, and now that his band might finally be on the brink again, he wants to go on the road, leaving Stella behind.
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not my cup of tea
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The author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her the “extraordinary debut” (The Guardian) with a moving novel about motherhood and marriage, adolescence and bodily autonomy, family and love, religion and sexuality, and the delicate balance between the purity of faith and the messy reality of life.
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Just OK - Considered Bailing
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After three marriages and a lot of living, resilient Billie Slate knows exactly what trouble love can bring. Now she’s reinvented herself as the Heartbreak Bunny, an on-call performance artist who can heal anyone who’s been burned by that four-letter word, LOVE, by hopping about and whisking away sad mementos from their past relationships. Call it magic. Call it peculiar. But her bunny costume is as perfect as her breakup mantra: SNAP OUT OF IT.
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Lone Stars follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone? Finding the answers takes Julian back in time to Eisenhower's immigration border raids, an epistolary love affair during the Vietnam War, crumbling marriages, queer migrations to Cambridge and New York, up to the disorienting polarization of Obama's second term.
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Read for bookclub but fell in Love
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Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she’d take them, but didn’t. He promised before they got married that he’d never want children, but now he’s changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She's never wanted to have a child. The fight ends, and with it their marriage.
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Amateurish and Frustrating Book
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Unruly Red knows she’s no one’s idea of a sweet old granny. But with one long-distance phone call, the fortysomething bar owner with the tattoos and tight jeans is suddenly responsible for two young grandchildren she hardly knows.
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What a surprise
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The annual Halloween block party is the pinnacle of the year on idyllic suburban cul-de-sac Ivy Woods Drive. An influential group of neighborhood moms—known as the Ivy Five—plans the event for months. Except the Ivy Five has been four for a long time. When a new mother moves to town, eager to fit in, the moms see it as an opportunity to make the group whole again. This year's block party should be the best yet... until the women start receiving anonymous messages threatening to expose the quiet neighborhood's dark past—and the lengths they've gone to hide it.
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I Didn't Want It to End!
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Sure, it's romantic up amidst the snow-capped peaks of Wyoming's Grand Teton Mountains, but Hanna Alexander has only one thing on her mind: trying to save the family lodge. That is, she did - right up until she hired mountain-guide Micah Gallagher to help raise revenues. Teeming with suspicion and intrigue, this Grand Teton adventure leaves listeners struggling with the Christian principle of forgiveness in the face of emotional entanglements, fears of the heart, and the inevitable agony of love.
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Disturbing storyline
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Four years ago, 19-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting girls, Travis was at home, changing diapers and worrying about keeping food on the table. But he's never regretted his decision. Bella is the light of his life. The reason behind every move he makes. And so far, she is fed. Cared for. Safe. But when Travis loses his construction job and his home, the security he's worked so hard to create for Bella begins to crumble....
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Sickly Sweet
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- Michele Carreon
- 02-17-23
Not much to say
This book is the story about relationships that have endured the test of time. That’s it. It’s a story that has been written before o it with the background being theater but I bet that has also been written about. It’s not All About Eve or Marriage Story but maybe a combo of those movies sprinkled in with nothing. I was so bored hearing this book. I kept waiting for something other than the obvious to happen. Nothing did until the ending credits. Just not my cup of tea.
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- Harold Phythian
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Smart, Sweet and Relatable
I love this book and the author’s intentionality. Everything had a purpose and a rhythm. I fell in love with the characters and felt as if I were a part of the story. This was truly enjoyable, as a stay at home Mom I was able to listen to this as I went about daily chores. Now I want to find more books by Cynthia!!
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- Kathy Green
- 09-24-22
Great villains
I read Nest and Good Company. Leo was an awesome despicable villain, and poor Julian was just a standard selfish pretty boy who couldn’t resist temptation. Both stories are fun and engaging.
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- Nicole
- 07-09-21
meh.
really hard to get into . the story got interesting but seemingly nothing came of everything? she finds out her husband has been in fact lying for years to her and what? thoughts? we will see?
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- Teach Franklin
- 07-10-21
Good Company wasn't so good, but then, WOW!
Marin Ireland made me stay with Good Company long enough to WANT to read it. Her narration made the book something that will stick with me.
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- YMR
- 01-07-22
Thought provoking
The story is slow but it feels purposefully so. It’s not about the actions and events that happen but how they make people feel and how they are affected. One person might say it is boring but another might be inspired to think more deeply about their own relationships and affects of their life choices. Bravo!
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- Nancy J Sexton
- 04-25-21
Enjoyable on all accounts
Really enjoyed this book - loved getting wrapped up in the characters and their lives. Really enjoyed the narrator too!
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- Zane
- 04-11-21
Wonderful
I love this author, and this book was as good as her first, if not better. If you like Emma Straub, Meg Wolitzer, or J. Courtney Sullivan this is probably your kind of book. Marin Ireland’s read is excellent.
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- Eric Mochnacz
- 05-09-21
Great, subtle, mature fiction
In a book market saturated with amnesiac women in distress, who solve a mystery in the last chapter due to a twist you never see coming - well written, character-driven stories like “Good Company” seem to get lost in the shuffle.
From the author of “The Nest”, another phenomenal slice of domestic drama novel, comes the story of Flora and Julian, their daughter Ruby, and their friends Margot and David. Told over the course of a summer, what does it mean to this tight-knit group when Flora finds Julian’s wedding ring - one he swore he lost years ago.
There’s nothing...melodramatic here. It’s straightforward, but told with heart and unique human emotions - all with a mature voice that transcends all the gimmicky books on the market today. It’s an adult book, written for adults - and I’m sure a mature audience will appreciate the genuineness of the story and the introspective quiet associated with all the assembled narrator’s thoughts.
Life is complex. Relationships are complex. Adult friendships are complex. And this book captures them all beautifully with an unmatched nuance (and masterful narration.)
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- Kathy
- 03-03-24
Ending??
I wanted to love this book.
It was a fun listen, because of the narrator.
But… WHAT HAPPENED? NO ENDING??
Totally upset and confused.
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