Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple

Author:Maria Semple [Semple, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction / Contemporary Women, Fiction / Family Life, Fiction / Humorous, FICTION / Literary
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

It should have come as no surprise to Eleanor that at Lester’s party, her baby sister, Ivy, Ivy the willowy, translucent one with a fluttery aura (she was the air and Eleanor was the earth), Ivy six foot one in ninth grade, who, a month before high-school graduation went to model in Paris and then Japan but had no luck in New York, where it mattered, who followed an acting coach to the Berkshires which ended up being a cult and had to be rescued by Eleanor and her then-boyfriend Joe, Ivy who miraculously booked a Dior campaign so her face was all over the subways one summer but lost all that money and her modeling connections in an ironically named Ponzi scheme, “Friends Helping Friends,” Ivy who hitchhiked to Telluride for an ayahuasca ceremony and stayed three years shacking up with the shaman, Mestre Mike, next finding religion in Fat Is a Feminist Issue, Toxic Parents, and Healing the Shame That Binds You, this Ivy, who became a certified masseuse but quit because the constant transfer of bad energy was making her weak, she was allergic to wheat and cut out sugar before anyone was allergic to wheat and cut out sugar, she also refused to eat meat because it was biting into animal screams and she avoided nuts because viruses clung to nuts, the Ivy whose skin had become flaky and eye sockets saggy, who couldn’t shake her angry dry cough, who Eleanor’s by-then-husband Joe, a surgeon who knew a dying bulimic when he saw one, checked into an eating-disorder unit on Second Avenue where Ivy was forced on arrival to eat a sloppy joe on a white bun, despite sobbing and gagging and collapsing on the linoleum floor, Ivy who was now answering phones for David Parry, rock-and-roll manager and husband of Violet, the head writer of Looper Wash, as a personal favor to Eleanor, Ivy who was now thirty-three and healthy if getting a little old for her act, it was this Ivy who came to Lester’s party, it was this Ivy who met Bucky, captivated Bucky, went back to the St. Regis with Bucky, and to New Orleans the next day.

A year later they were married.

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