She Effin' Hates Me: A Love Story

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Molly has arrived home from Vassar to reveal that she has an important announcement to make. Her mother, Suzanne, is convinced that Molly's news is history repeating herself -- and that she's about to become a thirty-six-year-old grandmother. Suzanne's mother, Ava, develops a case of impending great-grandmother fever--that is, when she's not spyingon the new next-door neighbor, Buddy McKinley, who turns out to be a blast from her past.Decades earlier, Buddy was the business partner of Ava's late husband, as well as his best friend during the Vietnam War. Ava feels she has good reasons for hating Buddy--she blames him for the fall of their business, an Irish pub that was a staple of the community. The loss not only destroyed her husband but also pushed her headfirst into the vodka bottle. Suzanne eventually finds out that Buddy and Ava's past goes back much further than either has admitted. She begins to wonder whether Ava truly hates Buddy, or whether her feelings are much more complicated, as are her own when Molly announces that she's not pregnant, but gay. Based on the award-winning play, She F*&%ing Hates Me is about three women relearning to love one another for who they are ... and more importantly, for who they're not.

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Crack open Scarlett Savages novel and you will feel as though youre sitting in the living room of relatives you love . . . and yet somehow cant avoid when you desperately want to. The characters are so vibrant and the dialogue so funny, honest, and three-dimensional that its hard to believe this is fiction. Something remarkable happens as we follow three generations of strong women through a startling revelation that redefines the relationships between them allall of a sudden, were not on the outside looking in. Weve become part of the family.
Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller

Savage reframes her award-winning play, She F*&%ing Hates Me, into novel form, as three generations of Applebaum women face their tribulations with family jokes and wry wit. . . . Nicely retains the sophisticated, urbane spirit of its theatrical origin. Kirkus Reviews
Crack open Scarlett Savages novel and you will feel as though youre sitting in the living room of relatives you love . . . and yet somehow cant avoid when you desperately want to. The characters are so vibrant and the dialogue so funny, honest, and three-dimensional that its hard to believe this is fiction. Something remarkable happens as we follow three generations of strong women through a startling revelation that redefines the relationships between them allall of a sudden, were not on the outside looking in. Weve become part of the family.
Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller

Savage reframes her award-winning play, She F*&%ing Hates Me, into novel form, as three generations of Applebaum women face their tribulations with family jokes and wry wit. . . . Nicely retains the sophisticated, urbane spirit of its theatrical origin. Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

Scarlett Savage is the author of the novel Narcotic Nation and the plays, Dear Daddy, Love, Cassie, Not This Girl, Not This Day, I AM A GIRL!!, and the award-winning She F*&king Hates Me: A Love Story, from which this book is adapted. She lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, artist and world traveler Mike Biggie.