The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus

A Novel About Marriage, Motherhood, and Mayhem

By Sonya Sones
(Harper Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780062024671, 432pp.)

Publication Date: April 2011

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook

Categories: General

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Sonya Sones is the author of four acclaimed novels for teens: Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy; What My Mother Doesn't Know; One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies; and What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know. She lives in California with her family and only shops at Neiman's when it's having a sale.

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“Wallpaper a room with the pages of The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus. It will be your favorite place. The room you come back to again and again, year after year.”
-Ilene Beckerman, author of Love, Loss, and What I Wore

“If you told me I’d laugh and cry in the nail salon over a novel in VERSE . . . I’d have said that you were mad. Then I read The Hunchback of Neiman Marcus and I saw the light and fell under Sonya Sones’ spell.”
-Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean

“[An] entertaining novel-in-verse that will have readers clamoring for more. Sones, a beloved and wildly popular YA novelist, brings poetry to life for readers, especially parents of teens and those coping with elder care, in this cleverly versified, insightful laughter-and-tears novel.”
-Booklist

“An elderly, ailing parent. A child about the fly the nest. Menopause. Tensions in a longtime marriage. . . . These are familiar midlife issues, but poetry’s sharp focus enables Sones to keep them fresh . . . [as she] expertly juggles humor and pathos. . . . Marvelous.”
-AARP

“Somewhere between Nora Ephron and Jennifer Weiner, Sones recounts the little ouches of aging with a perfect blend of wit and tenderness. . . . This is what chick lit should want to be when it grows up--wise, funny, and blunt.”
-Library Journal

“An achingly honest, brilliantly crafted examination of midlife. An absolute joy to read.”
-Tish Cohen, author of The Truth About Delilah Blue and Inside Out Girl

“Every page of Sonya Sones’s novel-in-verse is brimming with wit, warmth, and wisdom. You’ll want to share this relatable and revelatory story about growing old ‘disgracefully’ with every mother and daughter you know.”
-Megan McCafferty, author of the Jessica Darling series

“Funny, fresh, and heartbreakingly poignant, this book had me laughing and crying at the same time. Thank you, Sonya Sones, for finally saying what so many of us have been thinking for so long.”
-Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries series and Insatiable