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The Grammarians: A Novel Audiobook
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"This listen is for lovers of words, lovers of a great story, and lovers of a great narration. Hillary Huber does a fantastic job capturing this wonderful novel about twin girls, their love for each other, and their eventual rivalry." -- AudioFile Magazine
An enchanting, comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language.
From the author compared to Nora Ephron and Nancy Mitford, not to mention Jane Austen, comes a new audiobook celebrating the beauty, mischief, and occasional treachery of language.
The Grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always bound them together, begins instead to push them apart. Daphne, copy editor and grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of Standard English. Laurel, who gives up teaching kindergarten to write poetry, is drawn, instead, to the polymorphous, chameleon nature of the written and spoken word. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war, absurdly but passionately, over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
Cathleen Schine has written a playful and joyful celebration of the interplay of language and life. A dazzling comedy of sisterly and linguistic manners, a revelation of the delights and stresses of intimacy, The Grammarians is the work of one of our great comic novelists at her very best.
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“Schine’s warmth and wisdom about how families work and don’t work are as reliable as her wry humor, and we often get both together…This impossibly endearing and clever novel sets off a depth charge of emotion and meaning.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“This is an utterly charming book and yet more than that. It is a book of real people and their relationship―both to language and to each other…An absolutely delightful read.”
— Elizabeth Strout, New York Times bestselling author -
“A wise and witty novel that follows the diverging lives and linguistic obsessions of identical twin sisters who struggle to figure out who they are on their own and in relationship to each other.”
— New York Times Book Review
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
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Among longlisted titles for Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for NPR Best Book of the Year, 2019
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About Cathleen Schine
Cathleen Schine is the author of several books. She has contributed to the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, and New York Times Book Review.
About Hillary Huber
Elisa Medhus, MD, is an accomplished physician who has practiced internal medicine for more than thirty years. She is also the award-winning author of Raising Children Who Think for Themselves, Raising Everyday Heroes, and Hearing Is Believing.