Three Weissmanns of Westport

A New York Times Best SellerA New York Times Book Review Editors'' ChoiceBetty Weissmann has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years. Exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husband''s mistress she and her two middle-aged daughters Miranda and Annie regroup in a run-down Westport Connecticut beach cottage. In Schine''s playful and devoted homage to Jane Austen''s Sense and Sensibility the impulsive sister is Miranda a literary agent entangled in a series of scandals and the more pragmatic sister is Annie a library director who feels compelled to move in and watch over her capricious mother and sister. Schine''s witty wonderful novel The Three Weissmanns of Westport is simply full of pleasure: the pleasure of reading the pleasure of Austen and the pleasure that the characters so rightly and humorously pursue….An absolute triumph (The Cleveland Plain Dealer).