Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) - Softcover

"Highly entertaining . . . Almost as hard to put down [as] Mary McCarthy's The Group."
--The Seattle Times

"A LIVELY STORY AS DELECTABLE AS A FIVE-POUND BOX OF CHOCOLATES . . . A thoroughly engaging chronicle of friendship and the substantive place it holds in women's lives."
--ANNE LECLAIRE
Author of Leaving Eden

"It is impossible not to get caught up in the lives of the book group members. . . . Landvik's gift lies in bringing these familiar women to life with insight and humor."
--The Denver Post

"A GUILTY PLEASURE . . . THIS LIGHT, SNAPPY READ MAY BE HER BEST YET."
--Midwest Living magazine

"Honesty, humor, and profound emotion . . . are the hallmarks of the book. Told alternately from each woman's perspective, and ranging in time from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, Landvik accurately captures the thinking, the culture, and the feeling of each decade. . . . [She] treats her characters, whose stories drive the novel, with the same warmth and love with which they regard each other. . . . For anyone who has connected with another person on any emotional level, this appealing novel provides the special comfort of recognition."
--BookStreet USA

"[A] delicious novel . . . If you love . . . Fannie Flagg, Lee Smith, Adriana Trigiani--you will love this. It's a buddy book, a story of women sharing friendship, love, loss, and laughter."
--Millbrook Round Table (NY)

"Readers might feel a twinge of sadness and loss as they turn the last page of Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons--finishing this book is like leaving five dear friends."
--BookPage

"Witty and wise . . . Landvik's ladies endure the best and worst of times together (and recommend some great reads along the way)."
--Booklist

From the initial formation of The Freesia Court Book Club and over the course of the next thirty years, five women in small-town Minnesota share the events, triumphs, tragedies, hardships, joys, and sorrows of their lives, in a heartwarming story of friendship. By the author of Patty Jane's House of Curl. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.