Grant Ginder Livres

"Nancy Harrison is running for Senate, and she's going to win, goddamnit. Not that that's her slogan, although it could be. She's said all the right things. Passed all the right legislation. Chapped her lips kissing babies. There's just one problem: her grown children. Greta and Nick Harrison are adrift. Nick is floundering in his attempts to write a musical about the life of Joan Didion (called Hello to All That!). And then there's his little sister Greta. Smart, pretty, and completely unmotivated, allowing her life to pass her by like the shoppers at the Apple store where she works. One morning the world wakes up not to Nancy making headlines, but her daughter, Greta. She's in Paris. With extremist protestors. Throwing a bottle of champagne through a beloved bistro's front window. In order to save her campaign, not to mention her daughter, Nancy and Nick must find Greta before it's too late. Smart, funny and tear-jerking, Let's Not Do That Again proves that, like democracy, family is a messy, fragile thing"-- Provided by publisher

in the tradition of Jay McInerney, Grant Ginder’s phenomenal debut novel follows one post-collegiate idealist on his quest to fit in with—and then distance himself from—capital hill’s up-andcoming political and social elite who work hard but play harder. • Striking debut: echoing with razor-sharp commentary, This Is How It Starts deftly captures the escapades of D.C.’s moneyed, socially and politically connected recent graduates. In this Bright Lights, Big City for the beltway, secrets are currency, the sex is bipartisan, and rules and boundaries are obsolete. • Remarkable voice: Ginder’s writing is smart, witty, and resonates with an authenticity that will hook literary-minded readers of Brett easton ellis, Jeff Hobbs, and Joshua Ferris.• Intriguing narrator: Taylor mack may have graduated from Princeton, but his Laguna Beach upbringing inadequately prepared him for life among D.C.’s movers and shakers. entertaining mishaps aside, Taylor soon discerns how to play the game and learns the cost of being an insider in a town that is unyielding in what it will take from a person in exchange for granting him a margin of knowledge and power.

Every family goes on vacation with baggage. The Rait family is falling apart. Not long ago, Sju Elena Rait believed she was living a nearly perfect life. A successful career as a professor of ancient culture, a loving husband, and a son who is soon to leave the family nest. However, her husband turns out to be unfaithful, and her son’s life is not unfolding as expected. In an attempt to escape her mounting problems, Sju Elena accepts an offer to travel to Greece for work for a few weeks. Her unfaithful husband and her struggling son decide to join her. On the sun-drenched, mountainous island of Aegina, with its stunning beaches, Sju Elena once discovered her first passion and fell in love with ancient culture. Will the family be able to regain their balance and steer their lives onto a calmer path in this paradise? The novel "Honestly, We Meant Well" has it all: sex, lies, and landscapes, filled with sharp wit and deep emotions. This humorous and insightful narrative once again proves that there are always comedic moments in family tragedies.

Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life.