Ordinary World, Elisa Lorello
Ordinary World, Elisa Lorello
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Ordinary World

Author: Elisa Lorello

Narrator: Cynthia Barrett

Unabridged: 8 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/23/2012


Synopsis

Readers who fell in love with Andi Cutrone in Elisa Lorello’s first novel, Faking It, can now join Andi on a new journey in which she faces a challenge unlike any she has ever known. Ordinary World begins six years after Lorello’s first installment left off: Andi is blissfully married, works as a recently tenured professor at Northampton University, and is a published author. Life is ideal—until her husband’s death in a senseless accident shatters Andi’s world, plunging her into a gulf of depression and grief. Her family and friends do what that they can to ease her anguish, but no one seems to have the right words to heal Andi’s pain. On the advice of a friend, she travels to Italy to escape and unexpectedly runs into the man who once helped her discover her authentic self. As their friendship is renewed, Andi finally begins to heal, daring to hope that someday she will be happy again. Both wrenching and uplifting, Ordinary World is a moving tale of love and loss, joy and sorrow, heartbreak and hope.

About Elisa Lorello

Elisa Lorello was born and raised on Long Island, the youngest of seven children. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and launched a career teaching rhetoric and composition. In addition to teaching, Elisa wrote the Kindle best-selling novels Faking It and Ordinary World, Why I Love Singlehood (co-authored with Sarah Girrell), and Adulation. After six years in North Carolina, she has recently returned to the northeast.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jane

I was depressed and bored through the entire book. Yes it had a happy ending but too much trouble to get there. STORY BRIEF: This is the sequel to Faking It. They need to be read in order. In Faking It Andi became close friends with Devin a male escort who helped her get over her sexual inhibitions. S......more

Another exceptional read. Another wonderful interpretation of learning to find and love yourself amidst a very tragic personal experience, losing the one you love. This book, again, had me fall in love with the main character, Andi, and how "real" her character felt. There was no hidden perfection in......more

Goodreads review by DCT

3.5 I'm torn with my feelings for this story for several reasons. First, I really, really enjoyed Faking it; I could relate to Andi and her insecurities, her past failed romance, her love and closeness with her brothers, and her strained relationship with her Mother. She was successful in her profes......more