Marrying Mom

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A wickedly funny comedy of New York life and love, from the bestselling author of The First Wives Club and Bestseller.
Shes the despair of her family, she tries to run their lives, and she just wont act her age. In fact theres only one way to get Mom out of her childrens hair

When Phyllis Geronomous decides that retirement in Florida is not for her and moves back to the Big Apple, her three grown-up children are horrified. Sigourney is a successful stockbroker and a control freak, Sharon has two young children and a troubled marriage, while Bruce, the baby of the family, is finally feeling comfortable about having a significant other called Todd. They just cant let crazy Phyllis ruin their lives all over again. Murder is out purely for practical reasons. Only Sigourney has the ideal solution: theyll marry Mom off, and then shell be someone elses problem. But where are they going to find a deaf, dumb, old, blind, and, above all, rich groom

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Praise for Bestseller:

Goldsmith hands out her characters
rewards and comeuppances like Jane Austen dealing blackjack You keep licking your fingers and reaching for the next page as if it were another potato chip
Newsweek

Author Bio

Olivia Goldsmiths first novel, THE FIRST WIVES CLUB, was made into a very successful movie. Others of her novels are in development, including YOUNG WIVES. She died in 2004.