Today Will Be Different

Maria Semple

Oct 2016 · Sold by Little, Brown

About this ebook

A brilliant novel and instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.

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.

Today Will Be Different is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.

Ratings and reviews

moronic shallow boring! Couldn't get past the 1st chapter Absolutely NOTHING amusing in tone that made me want to keep trying to push thru.All she does is whine a about having to have sex. buyinoverpriced clothes whining g about her friend who is annoyin.if anyones annoying it's Eleanor...If the reviewers are if5iots.

Cant get thru the sample. Non stop rambling of a white american middle aged woman about her problems living in paradise.

So me, its painful. But cool cuz im notthe only kook. Wait, did she say she was only exaggerating? Damn, im doomed then I suppose...

About the author

Maria Semple is the author of This One Is Mine and Today Will Be Different. Before turning to fiction, she wrote for Mad About You, Ellen, and Arrested Development. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker. She lives in Seattle.