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This is Not About Us
- Author
- Allegra Goodman
- Narrator
- Kimberly Farr
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 5 November 2026
- Run Time
- 12 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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When their beloved sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into a decade of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives - divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals - their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible.
With This Is Not About Us, master storyteller Allegra Goodman - whose prior collection was heralded as "one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life" (The Boston Globe) - returns to the form and subject that endeared her to legions of readers. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This Is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters - a big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations
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Details
- Author
- Allegra Goodman
- Narrator
- Kimberly Farr
- Duration
- 12 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 November 2026
- ISBN
- 9781800757455
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubinstein family, it could go either way.When their beloved sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into a decade of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives - divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals - their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible.With This Is Not About Us, master storyteller Allegra Goodman - whose prior collection was heralded as "one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life" (The Boston Globe) - returns to the form and subject that endeared her to legions of readers. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This Is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters - a big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations
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