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Blueprints : a novel

Title
  1. Blueprints : a novel / Barbara Delinsky.
Published by
  1. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Supplementary content
  1. Cover image
Author
  1. Delinsky, Barbara.

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Description
  1. 408 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  1. "Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work -and what to do when they break. Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television. Caroline takes pride in her work, and in the way she connects with the show's audience. But when she is told the network wants her daughter to replace her as host-the day after Caroline's fifty-sixth birthday-she is devastated. The fallout couldn't come at a worse time. For Jamie, life changes overnight when, soon after learning of the host shift, her father and his new wife die in a car accident that orphans their two-year-old son. Accustomed to organization and planning, she is now grappling with a toddler who misses his parents, a fiance who doesn't want the child, a staggering new attraction, and a work challenge that, if botched, could undermine the future of both MacAfee Homes and Gut It! For Caroline, hosting Gut It! is part of her identity. Facing its loss, she feels betrayed by her daughter and old in the eyes of the world. Her ex-husband's death thrusts her into the role of caregiver to his aging father. And then there's Dean, a long-time friend, whose efforts to seduce her awaken desires that have been dormant for so long that she feels foreign to herself. Who am I? Both women ask, as the blueprints they've built their lives around suddenly need revising. While loyalties shift, decisions hover, and new relationships tempt, their challenge comes not only in remaking themselves, but in rebuilding their relationship with each other"--
Subject
  1. Domestic fiction
  2. Life change events > Fiction
  3. Parent and adult child > Fiction
  4. Television personalities > Fiction
  5. Mothers and daughters > Fiction
  6. FICTION / Family Life
  7. FICTION / Contemporary Women
Genre/Form
  1. Domestic fiction.
Call number
  1. JFE 15-3599
Author
  1. Delinsky, Barbara.
Title
  1. Blueprints : a novel / Barbara Delinsky.
Publisher
  1. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Connect to:
  1. Cover image
LCCN
  1. 2015012454
ISBN
  1. 9781250007049
  2. 1250007046
Research call number
  1. JFE 15-3599
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