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Standard deviation

Katherine Heiny

2017208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2017
first published
  • 2017Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9780385353823
  • 2017HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780008105518
  • 2017319 pages · ENGISBN 9780385353816
  • 2017HarperCollins Publishers · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780008189884
  • 2017HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780008105525
  • 2017Thorndike Press · 482 pages · ENGISBN 9781432844134
  • 2018HarperCollins Publishers Australia · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780008105532
  • 2018Vintage · 336 pagesISBN 9780804173162

"The celebrated author of Single, Carefree, Mellow, returns with her debut novel--a rueful, funny examination of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami. Divorcing his wife to marry his girlfriend, Audra, is the one impulsive thing Graham Cavanaugh has ever done. Audra is charming and spontaneous and fun, but life with her can be exhausting, constantly interrupted by phone calls, burdened by houseguests, and populated by old men with backpacks full of origami paper. As Graham and Audra struggle to define their marriage and raise a child with Asperger's, they decide to establish a friendship with his first wife, Elspeth. But former spouses are hard to categorize--are they friends, enemies, old flames, or just people who know you really, really well? Graham starts to wonder: How can anyone love two such different women? Did he make the right choice? Is there a right choice? A novel as poignant as it is hilarious, Standard Deviation never deviates from superb"--

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Character focusTwo hander

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Romance levelCentral

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ThemesLove
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