All My Puny Sorrows

317 pages

English language

Published March 10, 2014 by McSweeney's.

ISBN:
9781940450278
OCLC Number:
892134520

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Elfrieda, a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yolandi, divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men as she tries to find true love: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. But Elf's latest suicide attempt is a shock: she is three weeks away from the opening of her highly anticipated international tour. Can she be nursed back to "health" in time? Does it matter? As the situation becomes ever more complicated, Yoli faces the most terrifying decision of her life.

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Content warning mention of suicide

Subjects

  • Grief
  • Divorced women
  • Women pianists
  • Sisters
  • Suicidal behavior
  • Fiction