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Cherry Baby

Rainbow Rowell · Literary Fiction

43 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

second chance romancecoming of age
contemporary romance
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#165 All Time

About this book

Rainbow Rowell returns with a breathtakingly honest novel about how imperfectly we fall in love. Everybody knows that Cherry's husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie... Almost nobody knows that he isn't coming home. Tom is the creator of Thursday--a semi-autobiographical webcomic, turned bestselling graphic novel, turned international phenomenon. Semi-autobiographical. That means there's a character in this movie based on Cherry... "Baby." Wide-hipped, heavy-chested, double-chinned Baby. Cherry never wanted this. No fat girl wants to see herself caricatured on the page--let alone on the big screen. But there's no getting away from it. Baby looks so much like Cherry that strangers recognize her at the grocery store. While her soon-to-be ex-husband is in Los Angeles getting rich and famous and being the Internet's latest boyfriend, Cherry is stuck in Omaha taking care of the dog he always wanted and the house they were going to raise a family in

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