02031cam a2200337 i 4500 1261969819 TxAuBib 160118s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016941646 9780316403436 hardback 0316403431 hardback (OCoLC)8734 BTCTA eng rda BTCTA YDXCP BDX WIM AZZPT JDP KGG UPZ OCLCO VP@ OU9 ZS3 YDX SXP JP3 MCT OQX ORK OCLCO UAB CZA OCLCO NDS TxAuBib rda Semple, Maria, author. Today will be different : a novel / Maria Semple. First edtion. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. ©2016. 259 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action, life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office -- but not Eleanor -- that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret. A hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living. Mothers and sons Fiction. Animators Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Seattle (Wash.) Humorous fiction. Domestic fiction. Humorous stories.