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Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0857529927
ISBN-13 : 23
Item Weight : 12 ounces
Dimensions : 5.67 x 0.94 x 8.82 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,943,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Customer Reviews: 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 11,903 ratings
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I want to read everything she writes. She gets us. There is a nuance to these characters, a depth of emotion so unbelievably real, you can see yourself, you’ll nod your head, laugh along, feel the warmth and intimacy as if you're a member of the family. A mother looking longingly at her grown children, still hanging on their every word, trying to speak their slang, she wants to hug them until they beg to be let go or when she knows she’s annoying them so much yet she can’t stop herself and being smack in the middle of the ridiculously unfair mind and body-altering menopausal symptoms, she can’t help but look back on events that altered her, reflect on her marriage, and other relationships right under her nose, and wonder. It's Rocky’s favorite week of the year. She loves every minute of these precious days she gets to spend with her husband, son, daughter, and elderly parents in their tiny rental cottage on Cape Cod. The one they’ve been coming back to year after year. Easygoing Nick, Jamie, who loves to cook, brought his sweet and adoring girlfriend Maya, whom the family loves, chatty, opinionated Willa cringes when Rocky makes inappropriate comments, asks invasive questions but loves her, nonetheless. Secrets are revealed that change the trajectory of how Rocky looks at the past and thinks about the future. It’s board games, conversations with their cat, lazy days at the beach, counting the minutes until they can get to the clam shack. Just wait for the custom sandwich orders. While they give the book its title, a sandwich here is a metaphor for a place in time, which Rocky marks by telling us how old her kids were at key moments, rather than how old she was. Holding on to her kids as babies, when they depended on her, now the letting go, her nest is empty, a new phase has begun, menopause has kicked in, her parents are aging. Her time was not her own though every moment with her precious family brings her joy, she needs to process what she’s going through. Reminiscent of Nora Ephron, who used the planning, preparation and enjoyment of food to show pleasure and love, Newman adeptly brings us to the table with exquisite yet simple summer meals of lobster, corn on the cob, tomato salad, and what’s in between those made-to-order sandwiches. Now, that’s love. And drama.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2024 by carilynp
This is an easy summer read, and it's quick and not too demanding of the reader. It's chick-lit, and I mean that in a positive descriptive way. The title "Sandwich" has a double meaning, it's referring to the town on the north shore of Cape Cod and it's also referring to the narrator's generational place in her family, "sandwiched" between her parents and her almost-adult children. The family has a long history of week-long summer rentals on the Cape, and there is meaning in those vacations. There are funny, tender moments, and the reader will experience many flashes of recognition. Families tend to have a lot in common, and the reader will recognize some of herself in the story.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2024 by Vito DiPaola
This is the first book I’ve read by Catherine Newman. She is truly a gifted writer. Unfortunately she has decided to write about one of the most obnoxious families I’ve ever met in a novel. Every female character, except for grandma, is pretentious, clueless, immature, and in need of therapy. The storyline involves the absolute, all-consuming passion the main character has for being pregnant and being a mother (obsessed with her “perfect” children) for instance when she talked about them, saying “I ached with love…and I felt like a gaping wound. If I could have stuffed the children into it, I would have. Into me. To fill the hole. To keep them safe. To keep them,” while also being completely cavalier about abortion. One character says: “I got pregnant in high school. Having an abortion was a super easy decision then. I got it done during a free period between chem and Spanish.” She laughs. “Those were the days!” I am a liberal, a feminist, and I fully believe in women’s reproductive rights and the right to choose but this is obnoxious. I find it difficult to care for characters who speak this way. Newman does write the relationship between the main character and her elderly parents in a very touching and real way. And she can be very funny, but so many times, I just wanted to throw the book across the room. Oh well…not for everyone.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2024 by JessieBookLover
This is one of the best books that I have ever read. Amazing language – the color of her words in the word pictures and the way in which it touched my heart and my life! I enjoyed this immensely and I am continuing to cry even an hour after I finished reading it. Now I get to look for and find all of the authors books previous to this and enjoy them.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2024 by Kristy Schadt
SANDWICH packs a LOT of material into a week on the Cape. Rachel, known to her family as Rocky, is once again gathering her children and even her parents into a tiny rental cottage close to the Cape Cod National Shoreline. They've been coming for years, and have made peace with the house's limitations, including an utter lack of privacy. This year is different for many reasons. First and foremost, Rocky is in the throes of menopause, which swings her moods like a hula hoop. I don't know that I (as a man) have ever read such a candid portrait of how Rocky's change-of-life effects her responses to ... well, just about everything. And there's a LOT of everything, none of which I can share with you. People make quite a few bombshell announcements during the span of seven days. But everything fits together in a family where independence is prized, but piling into the pullout sofa is an equally cherished family tradition; even the ancient family cat hops in. I loved Rocky in large part because she's so brutally honest about herself, her shortcomings, her ferocious love for her family, and the hideous inconvenience and distortion of menopause. I think that a lot of men - especially straight married men - would gain a lot of insight from Newman's candor. A great, short, memorable summer read.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2024 by Bway Jack