Host Family

Host Family

by Mameve Medwed (Author)

Synopsis

Daisy and Henry Lewis have been married for twenty years. They live near Harvard University where they have long served as a host family for its International students. With the departure of their son for college the empty nest turns into a gaping hole. Henry starts calling himself Henri, spattering his conversations with au contraires and mais ouis. She should have seen "it" coming. On the night they win the Host Family award, Henry tells Daisy over sushi that their marriage is finis. Daisy tries to pick up the pieces by falling in love with a parasitologist named Truman Wolff who finds extraordinary similarities between the behaviour of tapeworms and humans. But just as life is regaining some equilibrium, the arrival of a devastatingly good-looking Italian student shakes up the symbiotic combinations and challenges everything Daisy and believes about the meaning of family and the meaning of love.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 06 Dec 2001

ISBN 10: 0753812940
ISBN 13: 9780753812945
Book Overview: An irresistibly witty and heartwarming chronicle of the way we live now Film rights to Mail have been bought by Anand Tucker, director of Hilary and Jackie and Bridget Jones's Diary. Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein to write script 'A book that manages to be both savagely funny and enormously warm and charming ... A delicious read!' Anita Shreve 'With an uplifting mixture of biting wit and affectionate observation, Medwed has created an indelibly positive picture of life, love and modern family arrangements' Aura 'This smart and warm novel of Harvard life is hard to put down' Independent

Author Bio
Mameve Medwed has written short stories in addition to her other novel, Mail. She is married with two sons, and teaches fiction writing in Cambridge, Mass