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Sleepwalking in daylight

Once defined by her career and independence, stay-at-home mom Samantha Friedman's days have been reduced to errands, car pools, suburban gossip, and the nagging awareness that this life was her choice. Now she deals with a husband who is too preoccupied for conversation and a goth daughter swathed in black clothing who believes she is adopted and won't talk at all. On parallel paths, mother and daughter engage in desperate, furtive escapism.

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  • "Once defined by her career and independence, stay-at-home mom Samantha Friedman's days have been reduced to errands, car pools, suburban gossip, and the nagging awareness that this life was her choice. Now she deals with a husband who is too preoccupied for conversation and a goth daughter swathed in black clothing who believes she is adopted and won't talk at all. On parallel paths, mother and daughter engage in desperate, furtive escapism."@en
  • "Once defined by her career and independence, stay-at-home mom Samantha Friedman's days have been reduced to errands, car pools, suburban gossip, and the nagging awareness that this life was her choice. Now she deals with a husband who is too preoccupied for conversation and a goth daughter swathed in black clothing who believes she is adopted and won't talk at all. On parallel paths, mother and daughter engage in desperate, furtive escapism."
  • "Once defined by her career and independence, stay-at-home mom Samantha Friedman finds that her days have been reduced to errands, car pools and suburban gossip. What was an easy decision for Sam years ago has become a nagging awareness that this life was her choice. Now she deals with a husband who shows up for dinner but is too preoccupied for conversation, and a daughter swathed in black clothing and Goth makeup who won't talk at all."@en
  • "Follows the parallel paths of a mother, who wants to feel something, and her teenaged daughter, who needs to feel absolutely nothing, as they each indulge in desperate, furtive escapism."@en
  • "Follows the parallel paths of a mother, who wants to feel something, and her teenaged daughter, who needs to feel absolutely nothing, as they each indulge in desperate, furtive escapism."
  • "Praised for her "haunting" (Booklist) and "tremendously touching" (Kirkus Reviews) novels, Elizabeth Flock reveals the inner workings of a modern marriage with unflinching honesty in Sleepwalking in Daylight, delivering a provocative story that Publishers Weekly calls "redemptive...familiar and melancholy." Once defined by her career and independence, stay-at-home mom Samantha Friedman realizes her life has become a routine of errands, car pools and suburban gossip. She deals with a husband who shows up for dinner but is too preoccupied for conversation, an increasingly moody daughter who won't talk at all, and wonders, Is this it? Since finding out she was adopted, seventeen-year-old Cammy Friedman has felt like an outsider. Unwilling to reach out to the parents she once adored, she shields herself behind black clothing and begins to drift into dangerous territory with questionable friends and risky behavior. Mother and daughter indulge in their own respective escapism⁰́₄ for Sam, clandestine coffee dates with a handsome stranger, fueled by the desire to feel something; for Cammy, a furtive search for her birth mother punctuated by sex, pills and the need to feel absolutely nothing⁰́₄until a pivotal moment in an otherwise average day alters their relationships forever. "Heartfelt and poignant, unique and memorable... The story is rich and resonates long after the last page has been turned." ⁰́₄John Shors, bestselling author of Beneath a Marble Sky"@en
  • "Unaware of one another's mutual discontent, a mother and daughter embark on parallel quests to escape their unhappy suburban lives, and while seventeen-year-old Cammy, convinced she was actually adopted, is drawn into a world of sex and drugs, her mother, Sam, begins an adulterous affair."

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  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
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