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“Hilarious and tender, this story of two sisters and their mother—all caring for one another sincerely but imperfectly during a time of upheaval—is absolutely wonderful. You’ll turn each page with anticipation, all the while wishing you could read it slowly in order to savor the deliciousness of Schine’s particular sensibility. Either way, fast or slow, it will warm the center of your heart.” Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge
“[Cathleen] Schine’s homage to Jane Austen has it all: stinging social satire, mordant wit, delicate charm, lilting language and cosseting materialistic detail. The Three Weissmans of Westport is richly inhabited. Schine’s characters, minor and major, have such precisely imagined presence that they need only nod with affectionate courtesy to the shadows cast by Sense and Sensibility before casting them away…The Three Weissmanns of Westport is much more than a romantic comedy.” New York Times Book Review
“A clever, frothy novel…The ironic title—the three are anything but wise men—does little justice to Schine’s real wit, which playfully probes the lies, self-deceptions, and honorable hearts of her characters.” New Yorker
“Schine sets the Austen machinery in perfect forward motion, and then works some lovely modern changes, keeping the pace going at a lively clip…Spotting the similarities and differences between the early nineteenth-century and early twenty-first-century stories is good sport, but the greater pleasure comes from Schine’s own clever girls and their awkward attempts to find happiness.” Boston Globe
“Schine has been favored in so many ways by the muse of comedy…The Three Weissmanns of Westport is full of invention, wit, and wisdom that can bear comparison to Austen’s own.” New York Review of Books
“No Cathleen Schine book is without wit and sharply observed moments.” Wall Street Journal
“There is so much zest for life in this novel that you can only imagine how much fun Cathleen Schine had writing it.” USA Today
“Swap genteel nineteenth-century England for upscale contemporary Connecticut, add two sisters—one impulsive, one practical—and stir with lively doses of romance, domestic discord, sudden setbacks, and sublime surprises, and you get Cathleen Schine’s homage to Jane Austen.” Elle
“A success…Sharp-edged satire.” Miami Herald
“Compulsively readable…An Austenesque mischief hovers over these romantic relationships as the three women figure out how to survive and thrive. It’s a smart crowd pleaser with lovably flawed leads and the best tearjerker finale you’re likely to read this year.” Publishers Weekly
