From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again. In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can't speak. Monday is the town's purveyor of books now that the library's closedâ??tell her the book you think you want, and she'll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab's job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne. For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother's endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone's seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets. Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than they've been alive. Because it's hard to let go of the past when the past won't let go of you. Three unforgettable narrators join together here to tell a spellbinding story with wit, wonder, and deep affection. As she did in This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel has written a laugh-out-loud-on-one-page-grab-a-tissue-the-next novel, as only she can, about how expanding our notions of normal makes the world a better place for everyone and how when days are darkest, it's our daughters who will save us all.… (plus d'informations)
I listened to this audiobook and not only is it a great story, but the narrator did a fantastic job of making it easy to keep the characters straight. This is an interesting story of a small town hit hard by greed, lies, and the repercussions to the townspeople because of it - told from triplet teenage girls' POV. The triplets have very different personalities, and they shine in this story. Great research, great depth to the characters, and a fulfilling story of hope, grief, choices, and the trust and love that builds a town... and a family. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me a copy of this great audiobook. ( )
Engrossing plot carried by living and breathing characters. First person narration shared between sisters (a little like The Poison Wood Bible). Compelling setting with just enough surprise to keep my gasping and listening. Strong performances by all three actors.
Eco-fiction with a huge helping of unique voice propelling the story along. Perfect for a mini-series—(hello, Reese Witherspoon, are you listening?). ( )
This is the second time Trying to read this book again. I wanted to give it another try since I enjoy family books. It's not an unusual family per se but the town is and a small one too.
I figured out when I first started reading it that the chapter titles with numbers were the sisters in the order of their birth (triplets); Mab, Monday, and Mirabel. To me, this is very clever. They are all quirky in their own way.
I don't know how to review this because I don't know how I feel about it. It's almost 400 pages and it went slow for some reason. I liked the triplets and the people of this small town. ( )
Listened to the audio book, it was fantastic. The different voices for the girls and the emotion given to each made this such a compelling book to listen to. The audio book was so good that I got past the bizarre ending, which is a tad unbelievable. The story and concept are thought provoking with modern themes of David vs Goliath and Romeo and Juliet. ( )
WOW!!! Once I picked this up, I didn’t want to put it down. I looked forward to when I’d be able to read it more. First, the characters in this book were so well written. I love how it switched perspectives from each of the three sisters, and I absolutely love Mirabel. I could have cried a few times reading her chapters. Oh, and the Templetons! I cannot stand them. I almost want to go to Bourne and fight them myself. The story reminds me of Dupont’s PFOA. For that, it really hooked me in from the start, but it just kept getting better. I think this is easily one of my favorite books of the year.
I won this book from a #goodreadsgiveaway . Very glad I won! ( )
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For Erin Trendler, my sister For Lisa Corr, my cousin who is like a sister And for Larry Hess, my cousin who would be like a sister if only he weren't a boy
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My first memory is of the three of us, still inside, impatient to be born.
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"Sometimes it's important to remember things the way someone worked really hard for you to remember them," Apple says, "rather than the way they actually were."
...for I have learned that home is not just where you live. Home is also where you want and need and are meant to live. Home is also the people who are there with you, who are the people who will help you live, who are the people who will do the best they can, not just for themselves, but for you, their neighbors and friends, as well.
...sometimes you have to destroy--or destory--something in order to save it.
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For now, Monday turns off the backhoe's ignition. She and Mab pull me out of my seat. We are all three sliding down the side of the machine, scrambling onto the earth, all in a pile, a single, weeping, trembling organism. Since my chair is back at the plant, they prop me up with their bodies, and we watch together, we three, under the frozen stars, under the dark, until the night lightens and the sun comes up, as the lake becomes a stream and then a river again, as the dam becomes a weir and then a hole and then a bridge between one grassy shore and another, water flowing below again, between what we have rendered at last a fallen, slain, and desiccated chemical plant and our very own small town, our home, Bourne again, coming slowly back to life.
From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again. In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can't speak. Monday is the town's purveyor of books now that the library's closedâ??tell her the book you think you want, and she'll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab's job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne. For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother's endless fight for justice. But just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone's seen in years pulls up and unloads new residents and old secrets. Soon, the Mitchell sisters are taking on a system stacked against them and uncovering mysteries buried longer than they've been alive. Because it's hard to let go of the past when the past won't let go of you. Three unforgettable narrators join together here to tell a spellbinding story with wit, wonder, and deep affection. As she did in This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel has written a laugh-out-loud-on-one-page-grab-a-tissue-the-next novel, as only she can, about how expanding our notions of normal makes the world a better place for everyone and how when days are darkest, it's our daughters who will save us all.
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This is an interesting story of a small town hit hard by greed, lies, and the repercussions to the townspeople because of it - told from triplet teenage girls' POV.
The triplets have very different personalities, and they shine in this story. Great research, great depth to the characters, and a fulfilling story of hope, grief, choices, and the trust and love that builds a town... and a family.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me a copy of this great audiobook. (