Pinch Me

by Adena Halpern Narrated by Susan Bennett

Overview

Acclaimed for her playful novels featuring fantastical elements, Adena Halpern was praised by Publishers Weekly for having "serious wit up her sleeve." In Pinch Me, Lily Burns has just married the man of her dreams when her mother tells Lily the truth-their family is cursed. Now she's been transported to an alternate reality-one where she lives alone, her husband has no idea who she is, and worst of all, he's married to another woman! Can Lily find a way to break the family curse?

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

Halpern (29) tackles cursed love and alternate dimensions in this gushy novel featuring uninspired characters plucked from central casting. Lily Burns's grandmother instructed her to "Never marry a man unless he's short, bald, fat, stupid, and treats you badly." Defiantly, Lily falls for and marries the most utterly perfect man, Gogo Goldblatt. Unable to believe her wondrous good fortune, she orders her new husband to pinch her to be sure it isn't a dream—and promptly finds herself in an alternate reality where Gogo is married to another woman and doesn't remember Lily at all. As it turns out, there is a family curse that has condemned all the women in Lily's family to misery unless they marry the worst possible men. The story wobbles like an earnest, tipsy party-goer, highlighted mainly by a painfully overabundant use of descriptive dialogue tags. (Aug.)

From the Publisher

A frenetic pace, a twisty plot, and a cast of loud, zany characters … Readers may fall a little bit in love.” —Booklist

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171054533
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	04/13/2012
Edition description:	Unabridged

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