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Pieces of happiness : a novel of friendship, hope and chocolate
- Title
- Pieces of happiness : a novel of friendship, hope and chocolate / Anne Ostby.
- Author
- Ostby, Anne, 1958-
- Publication
- New York : Doubleday, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-9193 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 299 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- ""I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset. Why don't you join me? Leave behind everything that didn't work out!" When Sina, Maya, Ingrid, and Lisbeth each receive a letter in the mail posing the same question, the answer is obvious. Their old high school friend Kat--Kat the adventurer, Kat who ran away to the South Pacific as soon as they graduated--has extended the invitation of a lifetime: Come live with me on my cocoa farm in Fiji. Come spend the days eating chocolate and gabbing like teenagers once again, free from men, worries, and cold. Come grow old in paradise, together, as sisters. Who could say no? Now in their sixties, the friends have all but resigned themselves to the cards they've been dealt. There's Sina, a single mom with financial woes; gentle Maya who feels the world slipping away from her; Ingrid, the perennial loner; Lisbeth, a woman with a seemingly picture-perfect life; and then Kat, who is recently widowed. As they adjust to their new lives together, the friends are watched over by Ateca, Kat's longtime housekeeper, who oftentimes knows the women better than they know themselves and recognizes them for what they are: like "a necklace made of shells: from the same beach but all of them different." Surrounded by an azure-blue ocean, cocoa trees, and a local culture that is fascinatingly, joyfully alien, the friends find a new purpose in starting a business making chocolate: bittersweet, succulent pieces of happiness. A story of love, hope, and chocolate, PIECES OF HAPPINESS will reaffirm your faith in friendship, second chances, and the importance of indulging one's sweet tooth"--
- Uniform Title
- Biter av lykke. English
- Alternative Title
- Biter av lykke.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-9193
- ISBN
- 9780385542807
- 0385542801
- LCCN
- 2017001279
- OCLC
- 2017001279
- Author
- Ostby, Anne, 1958- author.
- Title
- Pieces of happiness : a novel of friendship, hope and chocolate / Anne Ostby.
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, 2017.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Editions:
- Reproduction of (manifestation): Ostby, Anne, 1958- Pieces of happiness London : Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, 2017 9780857525307
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ostby, Anne, 1958- Pieces of happiness New York : Doubleday, 2017 9780385542814 (DLC) 2017020415
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-9193