What do you think was going through Jimmy’s mind when Katie tells him she loves him? And when he sees the realization in her eyes that he considers her only a child?
ELIZABETH BERG, is the author of twelve novels, including her newest work, The Art of Mending, the New York Times bestsellers Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and Open House, which was an Oprah’s Book Club Selection in 2000. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, she is also the author of a nonfiction work, Escaping into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.
“Touching … [A] deft, sweet, and often comic novel.”
—Chicago Tribune
UNTIL THE REAL THING COMES ALONG
by ELIZABETH BERG
“A PERCEPTIVE COMEDY OF MODERN MANNERS … At the end of each undemanding day, Patty goes home to an empty apartment and listens to her biological clock ticking as ominously as Captain Hook’s crocodile.… Patty wants a husband and a baby, and not necessarily in that order.… But Patty has a problem. Try as she might, there is only one man she can love—her best friend, Ethan—and try as Ethan might, he is quite firmly and intractably gay. With rueful good humor, Until the Real Thing Comes Along shows how Patty and Ethan come to terms with the impossibility of having it all.”—The Boston Globe
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