YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU(不能不爱你)

The Zarr sisters are having a rough go of it: the oldest, Estelle, wants to make it as a movie director and to find a good man, but success eludes her on both fronts. Jessie, meanwhile, worries herself to the edge of mental illness as she juggles a staid marriage with "diet guru" Allan, two inquisitive children and her booming organizing and decorating business. Youngest sister Erica, living in New York, longs to become a writer. Even the girls' parents, Lilly and former songwriter Milton, are having trouble navigating the late-life doldrums ("He's retired, his voice isn't what it used to be, he's a grandfather... what's left?"). When Gladys, Milton's former business and stage partner, dies, the family reunites in Toronto and, between meltdowns and shivah sessions, help one another get sorted out. Estelle realizes she may be better off without a husband when her career takes off. Jessie's extramarital fling portends a breakdown and a pleasantly broken home. And Erica and her narcissist novelist boyfriend forge a complicated breakup. Goodman's second (after Belle of the Bayou) offers a generously imagined panorama of life crises. (Aug. 1) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
　　作者简介：
You Made Me Love You is Joanna Goodman's second novel. Her debut novel, Belle of the Bayou,was published in 1998 and received wide critical acclaim. That same year, her work was excerpted in Elisabeth Harvor's fiction anthology A Room at the Heart of Things. Joanna Goodman's stories have also appeared in The Fiddlehead, the Ottawa Citizen, B & A Fiction, Event, The New Quarterly,and White Wall Review. She lives in Toronto and is at work on a third novel.

Joanna Goodman is the author of the acclaimed Belle of the Bayou. Her stories have appeared in such publications as Fiddlehead, Ottawa Citizen, Event, and New Quarterly, and the anthology A Room at the Heart of Things.

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The Zarr sisters have traveled far and wide to discover their dreams-and themselves. "Make it in Hollywood" was always Estelle's mantra. She's made it to Hollywood, but she's far from becoming a celebrated fi lm editor. Her sister Erica is in New York, where she's writing fiction, but not feeling quite at home in the literary salon. Meanwhile back in Toronto, Jessie's perfect life, set in stone at the age of twenty-one when she married a doctor and then had two children, has begun to crumble. Even their mother is having doubts about the life she chose, wondering if maybe she should never have put marriage ahead of her blossoming career in show biz...